[lug] gnome background via command line

Zan Lynx zlynx at acm.org
Fri Jul 25 09:18:17 MDT 2003


Nautilus has everything to do with your background when you're running
it.  Nautilus tries to do a desktop like Windows, with icons on the
desktop.  It does that by making itself a window that covers the normal
root window.

Now you know.

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 09:14, Joseph McDonald wrote:
> I'm running 9.1 as well and it seems to work fine for me. I don't know
> that nautilis has anything at all to do with your background. I think
> that's probably unrelated. What are the steps you take to set your background
> image? Is it only that image? Have you tried setting it to something else
> and seeing if that one sticks? I usually copy stuff into MDK's favorite
> backround image directory in /usr/share/mdk/ - then just check perms and
> make sure those are all set.
> 
> 	--joey
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Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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