screen background problem on F12

[fred smith]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:12:57PM -0600, Mike Heitmann wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 21:19 -0500, fred smith wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:22:05AM -0500, fred smith wrote:
> > > Hi all!
> > 
> > Anybody got any clues on this one? So far no one has replied. I've been
> > searching fedora forums and mailing lists, and gnome forums and mailing
> > lists and no solutions have turned up. 
> > 
> > it's rather a pain in the neck:
> > 
> > I can set a wallpaper and it disappears (i.e., reverts to the system
> > default) as soon as I change desktops or log off/on.
> > 
> > Never did that on F11, why is it doing it now, and more importantly,
> > what do I do about it?
> > 
> 
> Hi Fred,
> 
> I just upgraded from FC11 to FC12 myself, and I don't have that problem
> unless the image I'm attempting to set is on a network drive. 
> 
> Is the image you're using on the local machine?

No, it's on the local drive in exactly the samem place it was when F11
was the OS on the same machine--I did an upgrade in place, not an update.

Fred
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