> Checked the "Background overrides theme" box in "Desktop background > settings"?
Yes, I did and that is unchecked. It actually seems to be intermittent, meaning some themes will show their background like, Boots or Shiny-Metal, however most of the other ones do not. I looked at the themes code and cannot find a syntactic difference. I am sorry that I did not provide more information the first time. It is its own small mystery. It seems to load a Blank background in the background selector for each one that I do. Any other ideas? Thanks for you help, Justin
