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How to change Wallpaper-preferences from nemo to nautilus

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I have installed nemo instead of nautilus, and almost everything works fine, except one thing:
If I want to change the wallpaper and I use right-click - change wallpaper, a Cinnamon preferences window opens. If I change the wallpaper here, nothing happens...
I'd prefer the "old" wallpaper window from gnome/unity, which changes the wallpapers accordingly.
Can I change that "action"?

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answered 2 Years ago etzelmortg · Accepted Answer

As far as I know.. this happens because in the Nemo's source code when you click in "Change Desktop Background" execute the cinnamon-settings.

You can try to edit the source code to call the gnome-control-center instead cinnamon-setting.

NOTE: In this example I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 with Cinnamon Desktop & nemo 1.8.4 installed from the ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable ppa.

Download the Source Code, Edit & compile.

1) Edit the gwendal-lebihan-dev-cinnamon-stable-raring.list file to allow download the source code.

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gwendal-lebihan-dev-cinnamon-stable-raring.list

Remove the "#" character.

BEFORE:

# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable/ubuntu raring main

AFTER:

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable/ubuntu raring main

Save the changes in nano with Ctrl+O, Enter then Ctrl+X.

sudo apt-get update

2) Open a Terminal and install the necessary packages.

sudo apt-get install build-essential

3) Install build dependencies.

sudo apt-get build-dep nemo

4) Create a folder to download the source code.

mkdir ~/Downloads/src

cd ~/Downloads/src

5) Download the source code.

apt-get source nemo

6) Edit the file "nemo-desktop-icon-view.c"

gedit nemo-1.8.4-20130709192207/src/nemo-desktop-icon-view.c

Search for the lines 665 & 667 to change them.

BEFORE:

"cinnamon-settings",  

"backgrounds", NULL);

enter image description here

AFTER:

"gnome-control-center",

"unity-appearance", NULL);

enter image description here

Edit as per comment to remove "Add Desklets" action.

7) Edit the file "nemo-desktop-icon-view-ui.xml" to remove "Add Desklets" action.

Search for the line number "12" to delete it.

enter image description here

You can remove it with your favorite editor or with this command:

sed -i '/Desklets/d' ~/Downloads/src/nemo-1.8.4-20130709192207/src/nemo-desktop-icon-view-ui.xml

8) Go to the "nemo-1.8.4-20130709192207" folder to build the deb packages.

cd nemo-1.8.4-20130709192207/

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b

9) Now you can install the deb packages.

cd ..

sudo dpkg -i *deb

10) Enable the "gnome-control-center-unity-appearance.desktop" file to appears in the gnome-control-center.

sudo sed -i.bak 's/OnlyShowIn=Unity;/OnlyShowIn=Unity;GNOME;/g' /usr/share/applications/gnome-control-center-unity-appearance.desktop

11) Hide the "gnome-background-panel.desktop" file from the gnome-control-center.
To avoid this:

enter image description here

sudo sed -i.bak 's/OnlyShowIn=GNOME;/NotShowIn=GNOME;/g' /usr/share/applications/gnome-background-panel.desktop

NOTE: with the "sed -i.bak" command, backups files will be created with the extension .bak

12) Finally you can logout and Login to see the changes.

The Result:

enter image description here

As you can see the menu does not have the "Add Desklets" action and the "Change Desktop Background" will open the gnome-control-center appearance

Hope it helps.