On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 09:00, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:37:27PM +0100 or thereabouts, Eckhard Doll wrote: > > 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. > > How to do this will depend on what version of Gnome you are running. > > Gnome 1.4: I think it was an option available through Nautilus -> > Preferences -> something. > Gnome 2.0: not sure. > Gnome 2.2: gconf-editor -> desktop -> gnome -> background -> find > the key called "draw_background" and unset it. > Gnome 2.4: as Gnome 2.2 > > Gconf-editor comes with a warning about "this may mess your settings". > It never has messed mine up, but I suppose it might one day. > > Telsa > hm, I'm able to uncheck "draw_background" and it remains unchecked even after a restart of gnome, but I get at least the solid colored backround and I'm still not able to draw on it with xearth or webcollage. I remember also, there was field in this preferences dialog to name the application responsible for the background. But I can't find anything similar in this gconf-editor. Is there any probably better resource to ask about this? Thanks Eckhard _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
