I have just upgraded my Ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10. All things working fine but I can't change my desktop wallpaper. Whenever I try to change,it changes to solid color only. I'm using the GNOME desktop, not Unity.
Please help me out
I have just upgraded my Ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10. All things working fine but I can't change my desktop wallpaper. Whenever I try to change,it changes to solid color only. I'm using the GNOME desktop, not Unity.
Please help me out
From Desktop shows a white or black background instead of wallpapers:
Open terminal by pressing Crl+Alt+t and use
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.background active true
I had this problem because I mostly use xfce4 and had set nautilus to not control the desktop (nautilus --no-desktop
). Switching over to Unity, I had no wallpaper.
Try opening a terminal and type
nautilus --force-desktop &
(thats 2 dashes before force and one after)
If you get your wallpaper back it means nautilus isn't controlling the desktop at the moment.
I used to be able to use Ubuntu Tweak to set that switch but it isn't showing up in mine (version 0.8.6).
You could also try downloading gnome-tweak-tool
and set the switch in it. This is my first time answering and the formatting is too hard to figure out at 2:24 am so I hope you can make sense of this :)