On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On F8 I used the package wp_tray (wallpaper tray) to change my background at > fixed intervals, but on F9 that doesn't work anymore. What's more, I also > can't change the background image using the System -> Preferences -> Look > and Feel -> Appearance dialog, and also not using the command line > > gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename > /path/to/image.jpg > > all of which used to work. > > When I log in again (i.e. restart of X server and of the Gnome environment) > the last image that was set as background appears as the new background. > > Has anybody else seen this? > > Even though I usually use the proprietary nVidia driver (172.08 Beta), it > also doesn't work with the open source nv driver, so it's not that. Try turning off the xfs service. 'service xfs stop' on the command line and do a ctrl-alt-backspace to restart X only (not reboot). If that helps you, make sure you turn it off permanently on all runlevels using the system-config-services tool. That cleared up many issues like this for me due to a X-xfs bug causing many things not to start, including nautilus. If that doesn't help, I don't know what's up on your system. /Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list