Bug#230348: gnome: Desktop background setting not respected after login

Manuel Bilderbeek Manuel Bilderbeek <bilm@oce.nl>, 230348@bugs.debian.org
Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:44:58 +0100


Christian Marillat wrote:
>>Does anyone have an idea of what might be going on?
>>Have you checked if your gconf setting for the background image is
>>correctly updated?
> 
> gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false
> 
> logout/login, the background is back.

Confirmed: this solves the problem for me.

Apart from writing it in the README.Debian file, wouldn't it be a better 
idea to run this automatically, if necessary?

Kind regards,
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