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Background settings for tiling and stretching seems to be missing in 13.04

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I'm running Ubuntu with a custom gnome-session which replaces the default window manager with xmonad. I.e., when I log in, I select "Xsession" in lightdm, and I have an .xsession file in my home directory which executes gnome-session --session=xmonad, where /usr/gnome-session/sessions/xmonad.session contains a modified gnome session which selects xmonad as the window manager. After upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04, the settings for specifying whether my desktop background/wallpaper should stretch or tile seems to have been removed! There is now just a single, large button for changing the wallpaper, but nothing else.

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answered 2 Years ago reangi · Accepted Answer

The contents of the "system settings" window seems to depend on the name of the desktop environment, where the default GNOME desktop environment seems to have been dumbed down such that one cannot configure the tiling mode of the wallpaper. To get that functionality back, add the following line to /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/xmonad.session:

DesktopName=Unity

For reference, the full session file then looks as follows:

[GNOME Session]

Name=Xmonad

RequiredComponents=gnome-settings-daemon;

RequiredProviders=windowmanager;panel;

DefaultProvider-windowmanager=xmonad

DefaultProvider-panel=lxpanel

DefaultProvider-filemanager=/bin/true

DesktopName=Unity