background picture dont save

[punklinux]

Hi, I have a little issue with the my background picture.

I'm able to set it up but everytime I reboot or logout it goes to the default Fedora12 picture.
My pictures is in the list so have to select it everytime in system/preference/look & feel/apparence/background. I didn't find any file to edit in my home folder to fix this.

btw I'm unable to edit the menu when I right click on mainmenu icon, anyone have an idea to fix this.

thank you.

[BugRocks1]

To edit gnome configuration file system there are 3 ways:

- Directly edit the xml files.
- Use gconftool-2 (command line)
- Use gconf-editor(Graphical User Interface that must be installed first)

The backgrounds I think are put in /home/BluePeople/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml

http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/01/...rom-the-shell/

[punklinux]

Hi, I've found the file in gnome2/backgrounds.xml but it's only a list there's no way to set an picture as a default. Is there a line to add or something else to do.

thank you.

[BugRocks1]

install the gconf-editor and in:

/desktop/gnome/background

edit the value

/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename

Mine is pointing to the default I never changed.
/usr/share/backgrounds/constantine/default/constantine.xml

So I changed the key right clicking on it choosing edit key and pasting this:
/usr/share/backgrounds/images/tiny_blast_of_red.jpg


To use the command line:

Getting the name and path of your actual background.

$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
/usr/share/backgrounds/constantine/default/constantine.xml

Setting a new background image:

$ gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename --type string "/usr/share/backgrounds/images/tiny_blast_of_red.jpg"

Maybe this is relevant I don't know.

Configuration Sources

GConf looks for each value in a series of storage locations called configuration sources. These are specified in a file called /etc/gconf/<version>/path. Each configuration source has a backend that knows how to read it - for now, this is always the "xml" backend, which stores data in XML files.

By default, GConf comes configured as follows:

xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory
include "$(HOME)/.gconf.path"
xml:readwrite:$(HOME)/.gconf
xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults

If a value is set in the first source, which is read only, then users can't delete that value, and thus can't set a value of their own. These settings become mandatory for all users.

The "include" line allows users to insert their own configuration sources into the search path by creating a file in their home directory called .gconf.path.

The readwrite source ~/.gconf is where user settings are normally written.

The last source is where schemas are usually stored - see the next section. A different default schema source can be specified by creating the file /etc/gconf/schema-install-source; this file changes the return value of gconftool-2 --get-default-source, which causes applications and RPM/deb packages to install schemas to the new source.

In addition to $(HOME), the variable $(USER) can be used, and any variable $(ENV_FOO) will be replaced by the value of the environment variable FOO. So $(ENV_DISPLAY) might be handy, for example.

Source:
http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/

I'm thinking that if some key is set as mandatory it will override your configurations maybe. Using gconf-editor you can unset that parameter or set it as a default one.

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Also if you ever need in the future you can list the configuration tools for gnome using:

ls -l /usr/bin/gnome*

There is a lot of them.

---------- Post added at 07:52 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 07:50 PM CDT ----------

One more resource.
http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/01/...rom-the-shell/

---------- Post added at 07:54 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 07:52 PM CDT ----------

wallpapoz

Almost forgot there is a wallpaper manager for gnome maybe it helps, there is another one called Drapes but that one is not in the repositories.

[DCOH]

You can use gthumb image viewer to set your pictures as wallpaper to use as a background.

[punklinux]

It was Wallpapoz, I remove it form my autostart and it work, maybe when I re-install Fedora I didn't check that because I never used it before.

thank you for the hint.