Dash picking a really odd color with default wallpaper

[Omer Akram]

bzr2165

If I set the default wallpaper as desktop background I see a really odd color in unity dash. If I use any other wallpaper dash inherits the right color. Its only happening for the default wallpaper for me. see the attached screenshot

I have also rebooted the system twice but still the same.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

that's some config fault. I'll close the issue now as I made it to work fine

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

It seems I am not the only one who have this issue. reopening

[George Karavasilev (kokoto-java)]

There is a dirty way to fix it:
Go to /usr/share/backgrounds and rename warty-final-ubuntu.png to whatever-you-want.png (as in whatever name you want). Doing that will fix the bug, but will make it unavaivable in the OTB wallpaper list, so go to /usr/share/gnome-background-properties and edit the ubuntu-wallpapers.xml. The first entry is the default wallpaper, rename "<filename>/usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png</filename>" to "<filename>/usr/share/backgrounds/whatever-you-want.png</filename>"
After that reboot and it should be fine.
However according to @om26er (and I'm willing to agree with him), the BG color is written in libgnome-desktop there must be a problem somewhere in that code. A few days ago it was saved in dconf now its moved to libgnome-desktop and the issue started after that.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-desktop3 - 3.4.0-0ubuntu4

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gnome-desktop3 (3.4.0-0ubuntu4) precise; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/04_compute_average_color.patch:
    - compute the avergage color in gnome-desktop itself, not in unity to fix
      some races (LP: #963140)
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:38:09 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 5.10.0-0ubuntu3

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unity (5.10.0-0ubuntu3) precise-proposed; urgency=low

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