Changing background to an arbitrary colour

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 10:56 -0500, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> This popped up in the Fedora google+ community, and just wondering if 
> there is a way to be able to set an arbitrary colour as the background. 
> (other than making a bitmap of the colour, and setting the image as the 
> background)
> 
> https://plus.google.com/109533309209161533982/posts/Ws5CUnPeRrD
> 
> It is possible to change it manually in the dconf settings 
> (org.gnome.desktop.background.primary-color & 
> org.gnome.desktop.background.secondary-color), but this seems like it 
> might be something that at least a few of our users might want to do in 
> the control-center rather than having to hack at settings.


Its not very discoverable, but you can drag colors from e.g. the gimp
color chooser, and drop them on the control-center background chooser.