On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Karol Babioch <karol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > > I guess you are using some sort of an extension to get "icons on the > desktop"? > That "sort of an extension" is nautilus' (imo annoying) property to create its "desktop window" when it's not already there. To set a desktop background there you need to tell gnome and nautilus instead of wmsetbg/feh/display what desktop background you wish. There seems to be a gconftool-2 way to do that properly [0]. cheers! mar77i [0] http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-244297.html