Mar 08

Set background image in Nautilus File Manager in Ubuntu

Scribbled on Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Updated on: 31 July, 2008 at 5:32 PM IST

Here is the step by step procedure for the geekier approach.

Method 1 (The manual method) :

  • Open a terminal window
  • Type this command in the terminal
gedit .gconf/apps/nautilus/preferences/%gconf.xml

  • The file “%gconf.xml” will get opened in “GEdit” text editior
  • Reach to the line which is something similar to this:
<entry name=”background_filename” mtime=”1204974947″ type=”string”>
<stringvalue>/home/jit159/k1.jpg</stringvalue>
</entry>
  • Now give the path to the image file in between the element
  • <stringvalue>your_image_path_here</stringvalue>
  • My image path is /home/jit159/k1.jpg
  • Here is the result
Thats the end of the story.


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  1. 3 Responses to “Set background image in Nautilus File Manager in Ubuntu”

  2. 1

    Yo todo este tipo de opciones las modifico desde el gconf-editor (lo podéis escribir en una terminal y os aparecerá el entorno)

    e igualmente en el árbol vais a

    apps -> nautilus -> preferences

    Y en este editáis el parametro “background_filename” poniendo la ruta de la imagen.

    By sayrux on Fri 14th Mar, 2008

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