Change the desktop background You can change the image used on your desktop background, or set it to a simple color or gradient. I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18, and I have set an image as my desktop background, it has a white bit around it, however when I set it to be "Spanned" on my desktop in the GNOME Tweak Tool it is put in the middle with two big black bits next to it: So how can I make those black bits go white? How can I change the background colour to white (well, the black bits that is, that's. You can configure the default desktop background and its appearance by setting the relevant GSettings keys in the org.gnome.desktop.background schema.
In the gnome terminal on ubuntu 20lts you can run a command like: echo -e '\e]11;rgb:aa/bb/cc\a' where aa, bb, cc are hexadecimal numbers from 0 to 255. If you wish to change the foreground color, use \e]10; instead of \e]11; To get the correct color commands you can use the color pickers in the snippet below. So - how can I set my background to a solid color and pick the color from a color picker? Use Inkscape to create a rectangle with the dimensions of your screen.
Then choose a fill color of your choice, and export the result as an image file. Finally, set the background image to be that file. The Ubuntu GNOME desktop allows the background to be changed either to a solid or graded color, or to any image you choose to specify.
In this chapter of Ubuntu Desktop Essentials we will look at changing the desktop background. In Gnome 40, how can I set a solid background color for the desktop? This was possible in Gnome 3.38 from: dconf-editor > org > gnome > background > set 'draw background' ON and setting the (primary) color. Want to set a single solid color or gradient color background wallpaper? Here's how to do the trick in GNOME desktop via hidden option.
GNOME is the popular desktop environment that is default in Ubuntu and Fedora Workstation, and optional in Debian, Arch, and some other Linux. Today's GNOME desktop is getting more friendly to []. Gnome is notorious for reducing user options in the GUI to a minimum.
So if you want to use a solid color background instead of a wallpaper, your only option using the UI is to select an image of whatever color you want your desktop background to be. The settings are applied immediately. For another way to set one of your own photos as the background, right-click on the image file in Files and select Set as Wallpaper, or open the image file in Image Viewer, click the menu button in the titlebar and select Set as Wallpaper.
Switch to an empty workspace to view your entire desktop.