On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:49:24 +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: >Gnome 3.8 has now hit the official repos and it looks great. They >only thing I can't seem to get to work is the desktop background. I >try to set it to a nice image I have, but my desktop background >remains a dull grey. The only place I see a change is in window >overview mode. The only way to get the background on my ordinary >desktop is to turn off "Have file manager handle the desktop" in Tweak >Tool, but then I lose the icons from my desktop. Please tell me I'm >not forced to chose the lesser of these evils and that there is >something I've missed ;) > >/M You are using an old theme. Set up with the default theme and you'll get a background. Then try and find a theme that (a) works with 3.8 and (b) you like. -jh
