{"id":80,"date":"2022-03-28T16:26:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T20:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/?p=80"},"modified":"2024-10-11T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T13:36:00","slug":"ubuntu-20-04-setting-background-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 20.04 Setting Background Colour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Newer versions of Ubuntu Desktop have removed the capability to set the background to a solid colour. You may run the following command in a terminal window to accomplish this task:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To clear the current image setting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newer versions of Ubuntu Desktop have removed the capability to set the background to a solid colour. You may run the following command in a terminal window to accomplish this task:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To clear the current image setting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">&gt; gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri \"\"<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>To set the primary colour (the first colour in a gradient or the solid colour):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">&gt; gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background primary-color '#000000'<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>To set the secondary colour (the second colour in a gradient, ignored for solid):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">&gt; gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background secondary-color '#000000'<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>To set the background type (&#8216;solid&#8217; for one color, &#8216;horizontal&#8217; or &#8216;vertical&#8217; for gradient):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">&gt; gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background color-shading-type 'solid'<br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newer versions of Ubuntu Desktop have removed the capability to set the background to a solid colour. You may run the following command in a terminal window to accomplish this task: To clear the current image setting: Newer versions of Ubuntu Desktop have removed the capability to set the background to a solid colour. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-file-management","category-os-maintenance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}