Re: Lost my FC2 background due to the Gimp

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On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 23:11 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Friday 23 March 2007 22:02, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 20:47 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > > I've been trying to create an icon for a music app with the Gimp. Part of
> > > the icon needed a waveform from a running music app, so thinking I was
> > > being clever I went for aquire screenshot with the Gimp. Now I've ended
> > > up with a graduated green background for FC2, and revert won't work.
> > >
> > > The original FC2 background was dark blue with Fedora core 2 in the top
> > > right corner.
> > >
> > > Anyone know where I can find it? At the moment I'm stuck with the KDE
> > > blue swirl thing, but would be nice to get the one back that I'm used to.
> > >
> > > Please. No comments about using ancient FC versions. I'm just trying to
> > > fix a problem.
> >
> > Have you tried right-clicking on the background and selecting "change
> > desktop wallpaper"?
> 
> Tried that, and no options, but I had Debian running on the other machine, and 
> rebooted to FC2, and on that /usr/share/backgrounds/images/default.png shows 
> the dark blue background with text in white in the top write hand corner. I 
> tried the same path on the machine with the problem, and now have the dark 
> blue background, but with no text. All a bit weird, and can't understand how 
> saving a screenshot with the Gimp has changed my background without asking 
> permission.
> 
> Anyway. I know I'm running FC2, so it's no big deal, just damned annoying to 
> have lost the Fedora core 2 text on the background.

Yeah, it's a bit weird.  I've not used FC2 in a LONG time, so I can't
remember how that version of Gnome works.  Perhaps one of the other,
much smarter people on the list could help.

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