kolsi
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mutter background colour

Wed Jun 07, 2023 7:57 am

When using mutter on Raspberry (Lite with XServer), the background colour is brown. Is there any possibility to change it?
I try googling it and cannot find any solution. It should support gsettings, but changing values of "org.gnome.desktop.background" does nothing.

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kerry_s
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Re: mutter background colour

Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:26 am

use an app to set the background.

kolsi
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Re: mutter background colour

Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:57 am

Which app?
xsetroot does nothing, hsetroot does nothing, gnome-tweaks does nothing, gnome-control-center does nothing

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kerry_s
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Re: mutter background colour

Wed Jun 07, 2023 10:39 am

kolsi wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:57 am
Which app?
xsetroot does nothing, hsetroot does nothing, gnome-tweaks does nothing, gnome-control-center does nothing
why would those work, your not using gnome.
try feh if you want lite or nitrogen if you want friendly gui.
if you using pcmanfm, you can use that.

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kerry_s
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Re: mutter background colour

Wed Jun 07, 2023 11:59 am

why not just run the desktop version, your essentially running the same thing in a round about way.

kolsi
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Re: mutter background colour

Thu Jun 08, 2023 7:46 am

I don't think that my question talks about desktop version...

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kerry_s
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Re: mutter background colour

Thu Jun 08, 2023 8:42 am

kolsi wrote:
Thu Jun 08, 2023 7:46 am
I don't think that my question talks about desktop version...
i pointed out the desktop also uses mutter and xserver, your welcome.

kolsi
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Re: mutter background colour

Thu Jun 08, 2023 10:32 am

which is not related to my question, because mutter on Desktop also starts with brownish background.

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