Set background image in xfce4 (Ubuntu 16.04)
I'm trying to do something that I think should be ridiculously simple, and I know it's something I've done probably hundreds of times over the past 30 years. (Not kidding). I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 with xfce4 as my desktop.
I've tried using the xfce4 "Desktop" UI tool, but it won't let me select any of my own .jpg files (or any .jpg files at all).
I've tried running xloadimage or xsetbg, and they run without complaint but they do not affect the screen background.
I've tried loading the image in geeqie and asking it to set the image as the background image.
I am not running Nautilus, so I know it's not taking over my background (currently it's the blue xfce4 background with the black mouse in the middle).
What is it that I have to do to set the background image? I mean, isn't that among the simplest things in the universe to want to do?
61 Answer
In the GUI for XFCE's Settings -> Desktop -> Background tab, if you select the "Style:" to None (drop-down box towards bottom right, by mouse in image) then it uses the solid color options just below, and greys out all the wallpaper images above:
Setting one of the other options like Centered, Scaled... will let you pick a background image:
(I ran into that problem when trying to get a solid color background with no image, it's not very clear!)
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