Questions about using desktop backgrounds in Ubuntu.
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ubuntu software center , ubuntu tweak and my desktop background doesn't work ? [closed]
no one understood me
i saw all the answers didn't work
help please
Ubuntu software center and Ubuntu tweak
when i opened it take a few min and then disappear
desktop background
it's black ...
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13.04 login lock background
I have:
a) upgraded my desktop pc from 12.10 to 13.04 and
b) installed 13.04 on my laptop pc
I notice some differences some of which I would like to control for example:
1) different login ...
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How do I fix my blank Desktop Background? [duplicate]
I asked this question earlier on this question Why is my desktop background blank after upgrade to 13.04? and yous marked it as a duplicate and closed it, now as I said in the comments but you didn't ...
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Dim desktop, bring focus to active window
I recently stumbled upon this article for applications that dim the background of your desktop, bringing focus to the active open window.
Of course the applications are for Windows. My question is, ...
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Cannot change background color in Ubuntu 13.04
I cannot change my background to the color blue and when I try to my desktop background goes black. I tried to do gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.background active true but it still ...
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How to change my desktop background image “forever”?
I have a picture which I want to set as desktop background, and I want it to stay the background image even when I restart my computer (I don't want to set it every time manually, from system settings ...
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Desktop shows a white or black background instead of wallpapers
after upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04 my desktop background turn black after I try to set a image for that.
How to fix it?
This is my desktop screen.
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Ubuntu 12.04 precise x11vnc to tightvnc windows 7, only shows background and mouse after log in [duplicate]
Hi I am wanting to create a headless(no monitor keyboard or mouse) Ubuntu machine which I can view from my windows laptop.
At the moment it is a full desktop, with monitor mouse and keyboard and I am ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 unable to change background images in user mode
I just upgraded to 13.04 this morning. When I signed in for the first time the original background I had used from 12.10 was there but was tiled. So I went to settings appearance and changed the way ...
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Background lag in ubuntu 13.04
I have some lag when i turn off icons from desktop. When I logging i have no wallpaper on background. Instead of wallpaper i have freezed logging screen. And the unity (or maybe compiz) freezes for a ...
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Background turned white
After installing ubuntu 13.04 initially background worked perfectly(i can change whatever i want) but after some time (may be 5 restarts) background turned white, even if i change nothing happens.
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Setting LightDM background from command-line without Unity
When I'm running Unity, I can set the background image with the following command: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "file://$file". This also changes the background of the ...
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Run Wallch in background
New to the Ubuntu scene. Is it possible to get Wallch to run in the background? Because when I'm running Wallch right now I have to start it up then bar it and leave it running for the time I'm on the ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 background is white when handled by file manager, and has no background when it is not [duplicate]
Long story short, I installed Ubuntu 13.04, and added the Gnome PPA but after installation I realized that the background was now white/grey. I tried ppa purging the gnome ppa but it failed. Upon ...
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1answer
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“Appearance” icon has vanished from “System Settings” [duplicate]
I have been using gnome-shell for a few months. I was able to configure it using "tweak tool" and "background".
Now I've just migrated to Unity, but "Change Desktop Background" (comes from right-click ...
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Why is my desktop background blank after upgrade to 13.04?
After I upgraded to 13.04 my desktop background has been a black screen, i.e.:
EDITS: Ubuntu tweak doesn't seem to be able to change the window theme either (although all other themes like icon ...
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Background not showing/blank [13.04] [closed]
I have recently upgraded to 13.04 (beta) and my background only shows white. I've even tried installing a background manager, but the results are the same. So I assume this is a Unity (or compiz) ...
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Problem with background on Ubuntu 13.04? [closed]
I have a problem with Ubuntu 13.04, there is no wallpaper except a white one . I tried to change it but it didn't change.
Any suggestions?
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Where is my desktop background? [closed]
After upgrading my Ubuntu laptop from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04 I "lost" the background wallpaper.
The background is completely black. It stays the same regardless of the wallpaper I select.
It ...
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How to change settings in order to see what I am typing?
Since i have downloaded ubuntu, the problems i'm dealing with is some of the text boxes, i.e. on the internet, their background colour is navy blue and my typing is white which i want to change and ...
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Black background in Gnome control center
I must have messed up something, because all of the subwindows in Gnome control center have black backgrounds. It makes them quite hard to read. I use Ubuntu 13.04 with Gnome Shell 3.8. Changing ...
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3answers
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Wallch Doesn't work
I've installed wallch from both the apt, and the source from sourceforge, and both not working.
Simply adding an image to the queue and setting it as the background works, but both "Live Earth" and ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 login screen: go directly to user background, not via default
I know I'm being rather picky here, but is there a way to configure lightdm so that when the login screen shows after boot it directly shows the selected user's background, instead of first loading ...
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changing the color of the google search bar in the webpage [duplicate]
How can I change the background color in the google search bar of the webpage? I changed my theme which uses a light grey text with a dark grey background but the webpage didn't change so it is a ...
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2answers
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How to check if any background process is utilizing the internet connection?
My internet speed is 4 Mbps. In Windows, I get 2 Mbps download bandwidth, but in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS I only get a maximum of 20 Kbps. Why is it so?
Is there any background process which might be ...
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How to make Wingpanel shadow always on top of windows?
I'm using Elementary OS Luna daily build (it works really well for me). I love the UI design very much but except one thing : the top panel (wingpanel AIK) shadow is under windows when they are ...
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1answer
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Change background from terminal for user as root [Gnome3]
I have a script that downloads the Bing images and then sets the background. This script is running in anacron daily, so its run as root. Now it changes the background for root but not for user. How ...
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permanent desktop background
Is it at all possible the have the login screen desktop background remain permanent for all users and prevent them from changing to whatever they desire? We are currently using GDM with 12.04 LTS.
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Problems with Grub Customizer 3.0.4
I have had problems with Grub Customizer with 12.10. One of the problems is that the up and down arrow keys don't function when I add a background image. I recently had to reinstall Ubuntu because I ...
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Change default desktop background for LDAP login
I am running and open-ldap server for centralised authentication, and Ubuntu 10.04 for the client side. I want to change the default background on Ubuntu client image, so that when a new user logs ...
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How to use a new xml file for desktop background?
From the file /usr/share/background/contest/quantal.xml I created a new file with personal picture. I would like to use this new xml file as the background desktop.
I cannot select this file frome ...
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Two monitors, two different backgrounds possible? [duplicate]
I'd really like to use a different background on each of my two monitors (extended desktop)
There's simple little programs for windows but I've yet to find anything for linux (Ubuntu anyway). I'm ...
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Change Background Application Missing [12.10] [duplicate]
I'm running Ubuntu 12.10. Today, I discovered that when I click on "Change Desktop Background" from the desktop's right-click menu, instead of taking me to the wallpaper-change module, it launches the ...
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How to change my background?
I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 (my system info reads "Ubuntu 13.04", though, for some reason).
Right clicking on the Desktop and then changing the background there doesnt work and just sends me to System ...
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Xubuntu 12.10: Possible to use animated gifs as a background?
I really, really want to use
http://www.reddit.com/r/cinemagraphs
I've done a lot of research on this, but the answers seem to vary greatly and I haven't had much success with any of the other ...
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LightDM background. Where from? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I change the wallpaper in LightDM?
I've changed my wallpaper, but on login screen old wallpaper is used. When I remove corresponding file - default background ...
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Monitor setup and desktop background lost on restart
I have a Lenovo Z570 dual booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10 very happily. I love it, and I'm fairly sure I want to switch permenantly. The laptop has a 1366x768px built in screen, and is connected ...
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I have two wallpapers (side by side) on one screen. help!
I have been messing around with my Ubuntu , I had duplicated my screen to show up on my TV. After this I decided to just go back to my laptop screen, Ubuntu did this, however, Ubuntu now shows two ...
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1answer
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How to make Guest save theme changes on log-out/shut-down/restart?
Ubuntu 12.04
At the moment I'm trying to recover my password on my only account, (but it auto-logs in) so I use the Guest when the computer logs-out/sleeps on my administrator account. So I change ...
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Add White dots to destop
Some people may not like the white dots on login screen of ubuntu 12.10, But i really love it , is there any way to add these dots desktop also and is there any way to remove these from the ...
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Only thing shown is background [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Unity doesn’t load, no Launcher, no Dash appears
I got Ubuntu for the first time yesterday and it was working great so when I turned my computer off and went to bed when ...
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Personalized wallpaper picture should not show in lock screen [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I change the wallpaper in LightDM?
I have been trying to find an answer to this, but it doesn't seem to be possible to find someone who has had a similar issue, ...
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Wallpapers are not fully “zoomed” (awsetbg -f) in awesome
When I set my wallpaper in awesome using awsetbg -f and in the theme.lua, most wallpapers are not "zoomed" (as if you were to set a wallpaper and make it zoomed, tiled, etc.). It is shown as tiled. I ...
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Black background and No Icons
I am using Ubuntu 11.04 (Ubuntu Classic).
Recently my computer ran out of battery and when I plugged it in about an hour later I now have no icons, a black screen, and my file manager won't start ...
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1answer
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Desktop Background doesn't show up on logon screen [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I add customized wallpapers so they appear in the dynamic unity greeter?
I re-installed ubuntu 12.10 and now this feature does not work.
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Background setting - cropping options
When setting a wallpaper you can choose from tile, zoom, center, scale, fill or span options. What do they mean?
How scale option is different from zoom and span? I can't see the difference on any of ...
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Ubuntu splash won't change?
How do i change the boot splash background color to be black, not purple?
I have edited /lib/plymouth/themes/default.grub to
if background_color 0,0,0 ; then
clear
fi
then I also changed these ...
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My Ubuntu (12.10) login background keeps changing to whatever wallpaper I'm using [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I change the wallpaper in LightDM?
My Ubuntu (12.10) login background keeps changing to whatever wallpaper I'm using...
I tried using Ubuntu Tweak to change the ...
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Is there a way to have translucent desktop icon label backgrounds in Unity?
This is my first post here, and I'm still new to Unity. I did a quick search and took a brief look at the suggested questions while posting this, and I can't seem to find an answer.
I've been using ...
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After installing cinnamon 1.6 the unity desktop environment has some cinnamon settings
Issue:
After installing cinnamon 1.6 the unity desktop environment having some cinnamon settings.
Yesterday I installed cinnamon 1.6. It causes some changes in my unity desktop environment.
After ...
