Changing background

[Abdulhalim]

Hello guys,
Recently, a stupid problem is annoying me. I have changed a background a week ago, now I am trying to set new one, it's okay to set new background wallpaper, but until a restart or logout, the annoying wallpaper came back.
I didn't install any extension for changing background image.

[Aravisian]

This usually happens when your chosen background wallpaper image is in a location that is not loaded right away on Start Up.
You can try copying the background wallpaper to /usr/share/pixmaps and then changing your wallpaper to the image in that location.

[Abdulhalim]

Didn't work, any extension to load image at startup?

[jayesh]

@Abdulhalim Try copying the image to /usr/share/backgrounds and then switch to that image.

@Aravisian

/usr/share/pixmaps

isn't pixmaps for icons and stuff?

[Abdulhalim]

There are pixmaps and icons, there is no that annoying image in there, I can't even use Zorin itself backgrounds

[jayesh]

whats there in your /usr/share/backgrounds ?

[Abdulhalim]

The Zorin OS default images

[jayesh]

Ok, so copy paste your custom image to that folder and reboot. And then change your Background to your custom image.

[jayesh]

if this doesnt work, try

sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool

Then go to Appearance and change the image from there.
it should look like this.

[Abdulhalim]

I did that and no change, again that image shows up at start up

[Abdulhalim]

I can change background image, but it reappears at startup

[Abdulhalim]

So, I find a solution, I install Wallpaper Changer and it works perfectly.

Thank you guys

[jayesh]

Happy to hear that.

[Aravisian]

@jayesh

isn't pixmaps for icons and stuff?

It can be for any images you want to reference as long as whatever is referencing the image has the path to file.
I use it for backgrounds or Live Wallpapers since it is in Root and readily available for images.