Happened to me after using Intel Graphic Drivers Installer 1.0.2, Ubuntu 13.04.
@Romano Giannetti: If in tweak tools you deselect "file manager handle desktop", you then have the background black until you select a different background. After changing background everything should be OK if Nautilus doesn't handle the desktop. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1132033 Title: Gnome-Shell activities shows black background Status in GNOME Shell: Confirmed Status in “fglrx-installer” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “gnome-shell” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “libcairo” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The Gnome-Shell activities view shows a solid black background while using fglrx in raring. I have found that this solid black background is only when you have "file manager handle the desktop" enabled. If you turn off the file manager handling the desktop, you can then see the background image in the activities view. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.6.3.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-7.15-generic 3.8.0 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-7-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Feb 22 23:04:29 2013 DisplayManager: gdm GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'clock-format' b"'12h'" b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'clock-show-date' b'true' b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'font-name' b"'Ubuntu 10'" b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'monospace-font-name' b"'Ubuntu Mono 11'" InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-24 (91 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64(20121023) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-02-21 (1 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/1132033/+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
