Beartooth spake thusly:
Gnome-appearance-properties gets installed with a default collection of wallpapers, themes, backgrounds, or whatever they're called; I have plenty of my own that I like better, and always delete those. But some screensavers, such as Slip in xscreensaver, still find them -- apparently in /usr/share/backgrounds. I'd like to get rid of them. But they seem to be protected in some way, at least against my userid.
"gnome-appearance-properties" is part of the "[GNOME] control-center" package. That package does not come with any wallpaper.
The packages that *do* comee with wallpaper (assuming you only have GNOME installed - vs. GNOME & KDE, XFCE.....) include
desktop-backgrounds-basic
gnome-backgrounds & the leonidas-backgrounds*
packages.
Do a search for them with yum, packagekit, or yumex and remove any or all of them that you may have installed and your system wallpapers shouuld be gone.
Personally, I like them, but most of the ones I use are also found elsewhere and I just keep them in ~/Pictures/backgrounds.
Scott