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. -- Liam