Thank you for your bug report, that's not a bug though, you need something to draw your wallpaper, if that's not nautilus you might want to reactivate the g-s-d plugin for it: $ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.background active true
closing, that's not a bug but an user decision to desactivate a feature (note that it was working before because the action was duplicated by gnome-settings-daemon but that leads to resource waste for most of users) ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173002 Title: No desktop background image if icons set to hidden Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: I am used to hiding my desktop icons (gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false) But since raring (13.04) it also prevents the background image to be displayed. Only a plain color background is shown. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu16 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Apr 26 14:29:42 2013 GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'1217x784+178+123'" b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'200' InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-31 (176 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-26 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1173002/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp