Can't change desktop wallpaper after upgrading to 13.10

Question

I have just upgraded my Ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10. All things working fine but I can't change my desktop wallpaper. Whenever I try to change,it changes to solid color only. I'm using the GNOME desktop, not Unity.

Please help me out

You have all done with edited my question, thanks for that but now where is the answer ??? — Gurupal singh, Oct 23 '13 at 04:52

score 11 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 27 '13 at 01:27

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From Desktop shows a white or black background instead of wallpapers:

Open terminal by pressing Crl+Alt+t and use

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.background active true

edited Nov 27 '13 at 01:27

Seth

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answered Nov 26 '13 at 21:20

Bosh

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score 8 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 27 '13 at 06:41

I had this problem because I mostly use xfce4 and had set nautilus to not control the desktop (nautilus --no-desktop). Switching over to Unity, I had no wallpaper.

Try opening a terminal and type

nautilus --force-desktop &

(thats 2 dashes before force and one after)

If you get your wallpaper back it means nautilus isn't controlling the desktop at the moment.

I used to be able to use Ubuntu Tweak to set that switch but it isn't showing up in mine (version 0.8.6).

You could also try downloading gnome-tweak-tool and set the switch in it. This is my first time answering and the formatting is too hard to figure out at 2:24 am so I hope you can make sense of this :)

Can't change desktop wallpaper after upgrading to 13.10

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