Re: how to have a transparent/no background in desktop of gnome 2.6.1

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Subject: Re: how to have a transparent/no background in desktop of gnome 2.6.1
From: Shaun ONeil <shaun@dog-berry.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:31:21 -0400
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On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 12:57 +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: 
> I want to run mplayer in rootwindow and I think I have have to disable 
> the background of gnome desktop. I am using Debian/unstable with gnome 
> 2.6.1 and could not find any way to disable the gnome background. Can 
> anyone give some ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> JSS
> 

two gconf keys do this for me,

/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop = false
/desktop/gnome/background/draw_background = false

You can set these with either gconf-editor (GUI) or gconftool-2
(command-line).

HTH,
  Shaun

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