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Wallpaper suddenly went black on Ubuntu 13.10

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This one is really strange. Two days ago the wallpaper on Ubuntu 13.10 simply went black. I have repeatedly tried to change it in the Appearance menu back to an image, or one of the default wallpapers, but it remains persistently black. I have no clue of what to do. Thanks.

Update I: some things I have tried that did not work:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.background active true

Purging the gnome3 PPA

Setting the wallpaper with Firefox

I have desktop icons, thus I don't think that could be a cause.

Update II: I captured a video of this strange desktop behaviour.

Update III: other fixes that are reported to work on Ubuntu 13.04, but are unsuccessful on Ubuntu 13.10:

Resetting configurations

Unticking the "show desktop icons" option (it doesn't exist in Ubuntu 13.10)

Unticking "Have file manager handle the desktop" in Gnome Tweak Tool

Changing the GTK theme to Adwaita

Update IV: Logging in to a Gnome Flashback session I get the same behaviour with the wallpaper.

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answered 3 Years ago ellter · Accepted Answer

Following the hint by kenn, I verified that my problems are caused by Cinnamon. I never installed it myself, but I use Nemo. The package catalogue does not list any Cinnamon packages as dependencies for Nemo, but somehow it got fully installed. The solution to bring the wallpaper back to functioning order is thus:

sudo apt-get remove cinnamon*

sudo apt-get autoremove

And afterwards log out and log back in.

Weird thing is: this actually removed Nemo and now I don't have a graphical file manager.