On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:08:14 -0500 Jim Seymour <bluejay@speedfactory.net> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am running Debian Sarge w/Gnome 2.4 and have not been able to > get chbg v1.5 to change the desktop image. I can see the images that > chbg is using in the program window. However no matter what I do I > cannot get it to display the images on the desktop root window. The only > > time I can see the image is very briefly when I log off Gnome. Is there > a special trick to use this program? I did a Goggle search and found > another Debian user that had the same problem. No solution was posted. I > > did not find any bugs listed that matched this problem. Help please. I'm not sure, but here's what I suspect your problem is. You're running Gnome 2.4. That probably means you're running Nautilus to manage your desktop. Nautilus covers the entire screen with a "canvas", on which is placed the background image and on which Nautilus draws the desktop icons and so forth. The window manager knows to keep that canvas below all the other windows. But since the canvas covers the root window, changes to the root window (e.g. a background change) don't affect what you see, since Nautilus' canvas is covering up the root window. The reason you're seeing your background change briefly upon logging out is because you're getting a glimpse of your root window just after Nautilus has quit. So what's the solution? Other than not running Nautilus/GNOME, the solution is to use the GNOME utility "gnome-background-properties" to change your background. This not only changes the image in the root window, it also changes the image in the Nautilus canvas. You can run that utility from the command line, or through GNOME's "Desktop Preferences --> Background". Hope I'm right and this helps. -c -- Chris Metzler cmetzler@speakeasy.snip-me.net (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
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