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Bug 710517 - Background Image used with .background or GtkWindow draws on top of NautilusView and NautilusDesktop
Background Image used with .background or GtkWindow draws on top of NautilusV...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-10-19 16:35 UTC by Joshua Brown
Modified: 2018-01-02 18:47 UTC
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Description Joshua Brown 2013-10-19 16:35:30 UTC 
Gtk3's css selectors .background and GtkWindow when used with a background-image: url(*) Causes NautilusView(NautilusCanvasView) to use this image file and to cover the desktop when Nautilus is selected to draw icons on desktop.

This can be recreated by placing: background-image: url(some image file);
under the .background selector in a gtk-widgets.css.  
For NautilusView, open nautilus then open a new tab then close the tab.  The resulting view is using the image file.
For Desktop select Icons-on-desktop in Gnome-Tweak.  The entire desktop or most of it will now be the image file.
Comment 1 Joshua Brown 2013-10-19 16:37:38 UTC 
This also applies to Gtk 3.8.
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2014-07-13 18:46:22 UTC 
this needs to be fixed in autilus, I think. The desktop is a very specific window, so nautilus should do the necessary steps to prevent the theme from messing it up.
Comment 3 António Fernandes 2018-01-02 18:47:19 UTC 
Starting with version 3.28, nautilus will not handle the "files on desktop background" feature. For better alternatives, read this blog post https://csorianognome.wordpress.com/2017/12/21/nautilus-desktop-plans/