Re: Gnome 3 from experimental - how do you change wallpaper

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

On 18/05/11 12:35, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On 18/05/11 11:56, Camaleón wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 May 2011 07:18:16 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> >
> > (...)
> >
> > > HOWEVER, I don't like the blue stripped wallpaper that came as standard
> > > - I would like to go back to my much lighter picture (from my own
> > > images) that I had as my wallpaper for Gnome 2.
> > >
> > > The only reference I have been able to find on the internet is to use a
> > > program called "gsettings" to alter it. However, my install of Gnome 3
> > > didn't bring in "gsettings". I can see there is no package called
> > > gsettings (although it did bring in a package called gsettings-backend)
> > > so I can't figure out how to change it.
> > >
> > > Anyone ideas which debian (experimental?) package contains the gsettings
> > > program, or is there an alternative way of changing this background?
> >
> > "gsettings" binary can be found in "libglib2.0-bin" package from Sid.
> >
> > Anyway, the background image can be changed from the common display
> > applet of gnome3, so if it's not present now it will in a future :-)
> >
> > Greetings,
>
> Thanks, I found gsettings now. It looks like I haven't yet got much of
> gnome3 installed - what is this common display applet? - the new
> gnome-shell doesn't seem to give me any options to access applets?

I found out how to change the background

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri 
'file:///home/alan/images/Travel/Holiday in Yorkshire Dales/p7130047.jpg'

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Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk