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gnome-control-center package

[Gutsy] Cannot set desktop background to a solid color

Bug #130541 reported by Mark Sobell on 2007-08-05

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

Gutsy: gnome-appearance-properties

Appearance Preferences window, Background tab, needs <No Wallpaper> selection.
Without a <No Wallpaper> selection you cannot set the desktop background to a solid color.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2007-08-06:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. If you want set a color background you should select the "No Wallpaper", how are you planning to see the color if you have a background on top of it?. however you can try is install the gnome-background package, in that package there is a couple of transparent wallpapers and you will see the color in the back. thanks

Changed in gnome-control-center:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
status:	New → Invalid

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Mark Sobell (mark-sobell) wrote on 2007-08-06:

Screenshot-Appearance Preferences.png Edit (37.7 KiB, image/png)

Just my point! There is no <No Wallpaper> selection as there is in Feisty. Thus I cannot see the color.
Please see the attached picture of the Appearance Preferences window, Background tab. Thanks.

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lunkwill (launchpad-lunkwill) wrote on 2008-07-14:

I was also affected by this recently on 8.04. I ended up creating a 1x1 image in the color I desired. Not very intuitive.