[kde-linux] Very ugly image in X root window.

[James Tyrer]

On 11/10/2011 12:19 AM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> On Thursday 10 November 2011, James Tyrer wrote:
>> On 11/03/2011 10:54 AM, James Tyrer wrote:
>>> Well, I have again wasted most of an hour trying to make a simple
>>> change to KDE and have not succeeded.  Did someone miss the point that
>>> hiding things does not make KDE easier to use?
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to change the X root window image (it is behind
>>> the desktop but sometimes is viable) for KDE?  Or, if it is hard
>>> coded, what is its name and location?
>>>
>> This is the image:
>>
>>       http://home.earthlink.net/~tyrerj/files/ugly.pn
> "ugly" is a matter of taste: http://bennip.de/?p=1631
It certainly is ugly when you expect something else and it is totally 
out of place with the rest of your desktop.  But the reason that I said 
that it is ugly is that someone appears to have decided for me that it 
will be part of my desktop and there is no way to configure it or change it.
> Looks like it is a plasma wallpaper, then you may change it using plasma
> activity settings.
>
It doesn't really make much difference what it lookes like it is.  What 
matters most is the exact name of the file for the image.  I think that 
in the past that it was a plasma wallpaper, but it doesn't appear to be 
in the current release.

It has nothing to do with plasma activity settings.  The backgrounds are 
set with "Desktop Settings".  However, if you had bothered to read the 
other postings in this thread before making a presumptive reply, you 
would know that this is NOT the background for the Plasma Desktop but 
rather appears to be an image which is behind the Desktop.  It might be 
the X root window (or like it) but X commands do not change it.

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch