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In 20.04 I can choose a background color and center a wallpaper image for a nice effect.

In 22.04 I seem to be able to choose either a color or wallpaper, but not both.

Does anyone know how I can choose a color and a centered wallpaper image at the same time?

I can't imagine Ubuntu would force everyone to have black backgrounds around centered wallpaper images. (I'm using a dark theme).

I can get this in 20.04

This is all I can get in 22.04

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  • it's the new feature for 22.04, you can find the solution here – ManOnTheMoon May 21 '22 at 05:56
  • could you post a sample of the effect you are looking to get? I just tried with Tweaks and the Centered option in Appearance under Backgrounds still does the job. – ManOnTheMoon May 22 '22 at 16:09
  • Yeah, i used the command line to change the background color(which is black) and i'm in dark mode – ManOnTheMoon May 22 '22 at 16:14
  • I went into dcongf and manually try several combinations and find that when choosing a centered wallpaper, the background will automatically changes to black regardless of light or dark mode (x11 and wayland). However, i don't see any error messages from the log. Hence, i'm not sure whether this a 22.04 fixed preset or bug. Sorry, I wasn't able to point you to the right direction. – ManOnTheMoon May 22 '22 at 17:10
  • @ManOnTheMoon Thanks for checking for me. I'm sure it's a bug, since the options for colors are there but the colors don't show up behind an image that doesn't fill the desktop. Do you know where I should actually report a bug for ubuntu 22.04 issues like this? Thanks. – Kevin Berry Jun 07 '22 at 16:53
  • you can file the bug at link. And you can find instructions here – ManOnTheMoon Jun 07 '22 at 17:34
  • Yeah, I'd like to be able to do this also. Has there been a fix yet? I have an image I'd like to center, in my case it's the color #16171f and I'd like to set the background to #16171f as well. At the momment I have an image with the color of #16171f and a background color of #000000 even though I set the background color (in dconf) to #16171f – g0nk Aug 16 '22 at 20:53
  • Great question, I'm still having the same problem on Ubuntu 22.04.3. The suggested answer below and the response to https://askubuntu.com/questions/1403952/wallpaper-background-switches-back-to-default-when-in-dark-mode-22-04-lts do not resolve the concern. – cdahms Aug 31 '23 at 18:22

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On 22.04 what finally helped set the background from a picture to a solid colour was:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-options 'none'

(This seems to be a new setting)

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