screen background problem on F12

[Mike Heitmann]

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 21:19 -0500, fred smith wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:22:05AM -0500, fred smith wrote:
> > Hi all!
> 
> Anybody got any clues on this one? So far no one has replied. I've been
> searching fedora forums and mailing lists, and gnome forums and mailing
> lists and no solutions have turned up. 
> 
> it's rather a pain in the neck:
> 
> I can set a wallpaper and it disappears (i.e., reverts to the system
> default) as soon as I change desktops or log off/on.
> 
> Never did that on F11, why is it doing it now, and more importantly,
> what do I do about it?
> 

Hi Fred,

I just upgraded from FC11 to FC12 myself, and I don't have that problem
unless the image I'm attempting to set is on a network drive. 

Is the image you're using on the local machine?

Mike
n0so at att.net