Having made no changes to my system, I booted/logged-in today to an odd behaviour: the wallpaper I see at login persists into the session. I have a wide image I use to span two monitors, but the "spanned" version doesn't show up when the login is complete. Instead, it looks like this:
Note the Ubuntu logos (x2) in the lower left of "each" pane, the mis-match of paper to monitor, and (most of all!) the lack of spanning.
I have:
- re-booted, to no avail;
- attempted to reset the wallpaper, but new settings don't "take", although when I run
gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.desktop.background
, the new image file appears as theorg.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri
value; and - checked "unity tweak tool", but didn't notice anything amiss.
The output for gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.nautilus.desktop
is:
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop trash-icon-name 'Trash'
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop text-ellipsis-limit 3
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop background-fade true
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop home-icon-visible false
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop trash-icon-visible false
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop network-icon-visible false
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop font ''
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop network-icon-name 'Network Servers'
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop home-icon-name ''
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop volumes-visible false
The system otherwise seems to be functioning properly.
I'm on 14.04 LTS (at least for a little while longer!). Any help appreciated!
Original image at Wikimedia Commons if anyone is interested. :)
I got the gsettings
commands from a related question which, sadly, has no answers.
Desktop
, I see the correct settings. I keep icons off the desktop, so on a whim I toggled onIcons on Desktop
, and whoosh - the spanned wallpaper came good. I then toggled icons off again, and all good. So, something is quirky, but if it happens again, I'll see if this is a reliable work-around.