Re: background

[Eckhard Doll <e doll wolter-ndt de>]

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