On 16/05/16 22:09, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-05-15, Rob Kampen > <rkampen at kampensonline.com> wrote: >> Hi Just stumbled into a problem with my recent new build C7 work >> station. Fully updated, gnome desktop, all was working well until I >> had a play with Tweak Tool, I wanted to try some other themes for >> window layouts as the default seems to not show check boxes correctly >> in all situations. I haven't yet determined what is causing this but >> suspected another theme may work better, as not being able to see the >> correct status of a check box is somewhat frustrating. So I made and >> tried numerous changes with this Tweak Tool, but only used the items >> that were installed as default installed select options, no special >> import of any other themes or extensions. At one point I lost the >> Desktop background - cannot recall which change triggered this, >> however as I have tried all the other options on just about every tab, >> I still have a gray desktop. If I move the cursor to the top left >> corner and it shows all the open windows, the desktop wallpaper / >> background shows just fine, but when I select any window/app, my >> desktop reverts to gray. I have tried resetting the desktop >> background but it does not remove this aberration. >> >> Any gnome gurus out there that can point me to the gnome foo required >> to get my desktop looking 21st century and not like my old monochrome >> Windows386 circa late 1980's. >> >> Thanks Rob > Try this: > > dconf reset /org/gnome/desktop/background/picture-uri > > Type 'dconf help' for more information. > Tried that - it appears to run, i.e. prompt returns. No change. Logged out and back in - no change, still gray. It has reset the background that comes up when I move the cursor to the top left and see all the open windows. Gnome is SO counter-intuitive, not sure what the developers are smoking.