CentOS - May 2016 - C7 Desktop background

On 16/05/16 22:09, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2016-05-15, Rob Kampen
> <rkampen at kampensonline.com> wrote:
>> Hi Just stumbled into a problem with my recent new build C7 work
>> station.  Fully updated, gnome desktop, all was working well until I
>> had a play with Tweak Tool, I wanted to try some other themes for
>> window layouts as the default seems to not show check boxes correctly
>> in all situations. I haven't yet determined what is causing this
but
>> suspected another theme may work better, as not being able to see the
>> correct status of a check box is somewhat frustrating.  So I made and
>> tried numerous changes with this Tweak Tool, but only used the items
>> that were installed as default installed select options, no special
>> import of any other themes or extensions.  At one point I lost the
>> Desktop background - cannot recall which change triggered this,
>> however as I have tried all the other options on just about every tab,
>> I still have a gray desktop.  If I move the cursor to the top left
>> corner and it shows all the open windows, the desktop wallpaper /
>> background shows just fine, but when I select any window/app, my
>> desktop reverts to gray.  I have tried resetting the desktop
>> background but it does not remove this aberration.
>>
>> Any gnome gurus out there that can point me to the gnome foo required
>> to get my desktop looking 21st century and not like my old monochrome
>> Windows386 circa late 1980's.
>>
>> Thanks Rob
> Try this:
>
> 	dconf reset /org/gnome/desktop/background/picture-uri
>
> Type 'dconf help' for more information.
>
Tried that - it appears to run, i.e. prompt returns. No change. Logged 
out and back in - no change, still gray. It has reset the background 
that comes up when I move the cursor to the top left and see all the 
open windows.
Gnome is SO counter-intuitive, not sure what the developers are smoking.

On Tue, 17 May 2016 09:29:52 +1200
Rob Kampen wrote:
> Tried that - it appears to run, i.e. prompt returns. No change. Logged 
> out and back in - no change, still gray. It has reset the background 
> that comes up when I move the cursor to the top left and see all the 
> open windows.
It's a bit late to tell you this, but the configuration is stored in a file
~/.config/dconf/user so if you back that up before playing with it, you can
return to your former configuration by restoring that file.

Have you backed up your home directory lately?  Do you have an "old"
copy of that file that you can restore?

-- 
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On 17/05/16 09:38, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2016 09:29:52 +1200
> Rob Kampen wrote:
>
>> Tried that - it appears to run, i.e. prompt returns. No change. Logged
>> out and back in - no change, still gray. It has reset the background
>> that comes up when I move the cursor to the top left and see all the
>> open windows.
> It's a bit late to tell you this, but the configuration is stored in a
file ~/.config/dconf/user so if you back that up before playing with it, you can
return to your former configuration by restoring that file.
>
> Have you backed up your home directory lately?  Do you have an
"old" copy of that file that you can restore?
>
removing the ~/.config/dconf/user folder worked - it resets everything 
to clean install state, so one does have to set up everything once more.
I played around again and find that the tweak tool tab
Appearance >
 > Theme GTK+ ==> the select box is where things go pear shaped. If I 
pick the Oxygen-gtk as the theme for my GTK windows that this makes the 
desktop background disappear and go gray - busted in my situation.
Just another example of this product (Gnome3 on CentOS7) not really 
ready for production use.