hello list, as useful as I find this gnome desktop environment, since I use it I miss the possibility to let the background image be controlled by another application (e.g. xearth or webcollage). I'm sure, I got once (some release inbetween or maybe my gentoo excursion) a checkbox in preferences to decide if it's controlled by gnome or not. But later I never found it again. Would strongly appreciate any hint about. regards -- Eckhard Doll <e.doll@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Wolter NDT