If I try to set the background using right click, configure desktop, background it doesn't do anything on my system. I would like to have this working as at one time I was using it to cycle through my backgrounds.
I don't know when I broke this and if it's a configuration issue or just that I'm lacking some package. The configuration screen comes up just fine though, it just doesn't do anything (it does show the picture when I select it in the preview).
The only way I set backgrounds now is by dragging the image and using "set as desktop background" which does work..
I have already tried getting help at gentoo forums (the distro I'm using) with no success after a couple of different threads on the subject.
I am using kde 3.5.3 (split ebuilds rather than monolithic, so maybe I'm missing a package that used to be pulled in, or is still an old version? )
I am also using compiz instead of kwin, but I'm not sure if that is the issue as this also occurs in normal X with kwin when I'm not using Xgl.
Thanks!
EDIT:
needed to delete my .kde/share/config/backgroundrc file
Works fine now, apparently some kind of config file corruption, didn't know about this file or where it was so took me awhile to fix myself.
This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "xanas3712" (Jul 26th 2006, 7:58pm)
