Desktop wallpaper Colors & Gradients will not change color

[Adam Bruce]

To reproduce

- System Settings
- Appearances
- Background > Colors & Gradients
- Set a new sold color

What happens

- Background remains black. This is the same for solid colors and gradients

What should happen

- Background should change to new color

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: unity 6.12.0daily13.03.01-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-8.17-generic 3.8.0
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-8-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.9-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
Date: Fri Mar 1 17:43:58 2013
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: raring
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0126] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0446]
 NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 540M] [10de:0df5] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0446]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-11 (18 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130210)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Dell System XPS 15Z
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-8-generic root=UUID=93acc5a7-d531-4af3-a215-472a7bd065d6 ro acpi_backlight=vendor dell_laptop.backlight=0 quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 07/27/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A04
dmi.board.name: 060G42
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 0.1
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA04:bd07/27/2011:svnDellInc.:pnDellSystemXPS15Z:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn060G42:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr0.1:
dmi.product.name: Dell System XPS 15Z
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.9~daily13.03.01-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.42-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0.2-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.0.2-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.2-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.1.0-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.21.3-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.6-0ubuntu3

[Adam Bruce (brucey-99-deactivatedaccount)]

I guess this might also effect gnome-control-center?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Patrik Båt (failure)]

Any news on this or a work around?

[svardew (svardew)]

install dconf-tools
run 'dconf-editor'
select org.gnome.desktop.background
run gnome-control-center, select background color.

dconf Editor immediately show changed values :

Name: primary-color
Value:rgb(138,226,52)
Type: String
Default: '#023c88'

Name: secondary-color
Value: rgb(206,92,0)
Type: String
Default: '#5789ca'

default color value is '#RRGGBB' style, but gnome-control-center set 'rgb(dd,dd,dd)' style.
close gnome-control-center, set '#RRGGBB' manually via dconf-editor, then Desktop background color change successfully.

[Emily Loebl (mloebl)]

Workaround added in #6 works great, thank you!

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1173818, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.