On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Jonathan Hudson <jh+arch@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I'm currently using the theme Nokto-3.8[1] which claims to be working with 3.8 and [2] is a screenshot of when the file manager isn't handling the background, and [3] is when it is handling it. This is how it looks with all 3.8 themes I've tried (not that many I have to admit) and also with my old 3.6 theme. If this really is caused by the theme, where can I find a theme that *does* work? /M [1]: http://cbowman57.deviantart.com/art/Nokto-3-8-363805533 [2]: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/187401/without-fm.png [3]: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/187401/with-fm.png -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus
