Can't change background

[Peter N. Spotts]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 23:07:57 +0100
Anders Lind <sunshinecoast at swipnet.se> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have tonight installed 4.6 from ports which was slightly messy if
> you don't remove the old ports first which I should probably have
> done, but I have a working copy of 4.6 now. Anyway my problem is that
> I can't change background. I just have the grey background with small
> dots in it, I am probably missing something very simple. When I go
> into the desktop settings in the Xfce Menu I can choose the
> background that I want but it doesn't appear.
> 
> Thanks for a great job
> 
> Cheers
> Anders
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Anders,

Make sure you have xfdesktop running; once it is, you should be able to
swap desktop images easily...

With best regards,

Pete

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