Unable to change wallpaper(background) from custom section in system settings

[Ravan]

After changing my desktop background using a custom image, my desktop stays black. I was able to change using tweaks and wallch, but not from default system settings.

[Nicolás (lupusaurus-deactivatedaccount)]

+1

I dunno if it's relevant but the only important change I made before this happen was install the hardware enablement stacks from Vivid (kernel and X).

[Fabian Ockenfels (ockenfels-fabian)]

+1
I'm affected too. Fully updated 0.3.2.

Switchboard failed creating the .local/backgrounds folder. I tried again after creating it manually.
This time the image file was copied successfully and dconf was updated accordingly, as I confirmed through dconf-editor.

Still the background would not change or go black. Manually changing the dconf background path to ~/Pictures/myimg.jpg worked just fine though. My first guess was some kind of owner/permissions issue, but I couldn't fix it via chown/chmod.

[Simon Butcher (sbutcher)]

Occurs in Loki beta 2 too :S

[Simon Butcher (sbutcher)]

Actually both custom and Pictures folder do not work in loki beta. It changes login greeter background but not desktop. Only workaround is to use gsettings on the command line

[Zisu Andrei (matzipan)]

I confirm that this works intermittently. I am now stuck with an ugly wallpaper. It seems that unplugging and plugging a secondary screen back changes the wallpaper.

[Rafael Franco (rafaelfr)]

This bug still happens with the release of the stable version.