changing the background with gsettings produces a white flash

[Tomas M <tmezzadra gmail com>]

Hello.

I dont know if this is the right place. Please let me know if i should go somewhere else with this question.

i wrote a script that modifies the wallpaper image and then changes the result with gsettings.

the result is that the wallpaper is changed but the transition animation is a white flash. (fade out to white the old background, fade in from white the new background).

This is not very smooth.

When i change the background with the desktop background app. the transition is a crossfade between the old and the new wallpaper.

Is this intended?

The command line used to switch the wallpaper is:

 $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri file:///path/to/a/wallpaper.png