Nitrogen not working under Gnome 3

[JamesWrigley]

Hi there,
Nitrogen does not work with Gnome 3 on Fedora 19, applying a wallpaper doesn't do anything.

Thanks,
James W

[c0r0nel]

This also happens on Archlinux. Gnome 3 seems to overlaps their own wallpaper.

[Hjdskes]

Are you talking about Gnome 3, or Gnome Shell? Note that these are NOT the same!

I'm assuming it's Gnome Shell - which raises the question; why would you even want to use Nitrogen to set your background when the Shell handles this perfectly fine by itself?

[c0r0nel]

I'm using two screens and want to set different wallpapers on each. Did you know a way to do it through gnome shell?

[Hjdskes]

Have you seen this? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2001922

It might help you accomplish what you want. If that doesn't work, I'm not sure how you could get this "natively" in GNOME. Perhaps you can code an extension to do this, or ask someone to do this for you?

[daf]

Multiple monitors was the primary reason for writing Nitrogen. To be honest I don't really understand the difference between gnome-shell and Gnome 3 (I use xmonad on top of.. unity i guess?), but support is coming.

Part of #25 is to make it easier for the different environments Nitrogen supports. Specifically, 721621b should fix Gnome support to work with Gnome 3. This branch is pretty much complete, I can't remember what was missing that I didn't merge it yet. Soon!

This bug is also addressed by #16 and #21, but I'll wait to close it until #25 is merged.

[Hjdskes]

To put it simple: Gnome 3 is all the applications of Gnome and Gnome Shell is, well, the Shell. If you run Openbox with Nautilus, Eye of Gnome, Rhythmbox, you name it, you are running Gnome 3 but not Gnome Shell. Unity is also a shell for Gnome 3.

[JamesWrigley]

Yes, I mean gnome-shell. Sorry for the confusion.

[daf]

Now that #25 is merged, this is fixed.