Comment 17 for bug 1159430

Adam, thanks for the additional work you've put into this. In the GNOME3 Staging PPA we have temporarily reverted GNOME's decision to drop the background plugin in gnome-settings-daemon 3.8; ideally Compiz would be able to handle drawing the desktop *without* the g-s-d background plugin.

That would still leave metacity users with missing wallpaper support but at that point I believe it is the GNOME Flashback team's responsibility to either figure out how to get metacity to handle drawing the desktop or to split the background plugin into a separate g-s-d-flashback package.

https://live.gnome.org/GnomeFlashback