backdrop

Hi i have changed my desktop following instructions on the forum which were very good the only bit i cant get right is keeping a picture on the backdrop im sure it is quite simple but if anybody could explain it to me i would be gratefull

 

Hi liamweaver,


Please say exactly what you have done and if you saved the image you want to use on the desktop here?

/usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/pictures

Also did you go to desktop preferences > appearance tab and check the show image box then select it from the above location?

 

Hello liamweaver,

I believe you may have answered your own question in the title of your post, you must put your image(s) in the "backdrops" directory.

(I am assuming you changed to the XFCE desktop, if not, follow all the steps in this link, it works very nice)

See step 6 of this link.

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Scott

 

This link is to the guide i followed, not sure what im doing wrong but still cant get it right, i want to use image a.jpg which is saved in pictures so i open a terminal and type
sudo cp ~/Pictures/a.jpg /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/a.jpg
should this work

 

Sorry it has worked now i dont know what i did differently but its done the job it takes some getting used to this linux, thanks for the help

 

Hi leamweaver

Another way to achieve the same thing is to open terminal and type sudo thunar. It will open file manager in root.

This allows you to copy/paste from say the pictures folder into the /user/share/xfce/backdrops folder.

You will see the warning sign about files opened in root so be careful.