How to change desktop wallpaper

[waltd]

When I right click on the desktop, a submenu pops up with these choices: terminal emulator, web browser, desktops, obconf, reconfigure, restart, exit. How can I change the desktop wallpaper? I don't see an option to do this with this submenu?

[Cloudcentric]

ASSUMPTION TIME you are using Raspbian "wheezy" with the LXDE Desktop Environment !! Right clicking should pop up:

Create New
Paste
Selact All
Invert Selection
Sort Files
Desktop Preferences

http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?t=31338&f=8

[waltd]

I originally had that submenu. But I clicked on an option that changed it to what I posted previously. I'm stuck on how to get the old menu back or how to change the desktop preferences from the new menu.

[Luutifa]

I originally had that submenu. But I clicked on an option that changed it to what I posted previously. I'm stuck on how to get the old menu back or how to change the desktop preferences from the new menu.

I've got the same problem! Halp plz!

[jkibbe]

It took me a while to figure this one out (and lots of failed attempts). I figured I'd post my solution here to help others that can seem to undo what they have done!

Anyway, launch a terminal and enter pcmanfm --desktop-pref. When the desktop preferences window pops up, click on the "Advanced" tab and deselect "Show menus provided by window managers when desktop is clicked." That's it!

When we changed the setting, we essentially told the Openbox Window Manager to take over the right-click duties. This switches it back to the PCManFM File Manager that we had by default.

Good luck!

[GraspEveryPie]

It took me a while to figure this one out (and lots of failed attempts). I figured I'd post my solution here to help others that can seem to undo what they have done!

Anyway, launch a terminal and enter pcmanfm --desktop-pref. When the desktop preferences window pops up, click on the "Advanced" tab and deselect "Show menus provided by window managers when desktop is clicked." That's it!

When we changed the setting, we essentially told the Openbox Window Manager to take over the right-click duties. This switches it back to the PCManFM File Manager that we had by default.

Good luck!

[klricks]

It took me a while to figure this one out (and lots of failed attempts). I figured I'd post my solution here to help others that can seem to undo what they have done!

Anyway, launch a terminal and enter pcmanfm --desktop-pref. When the desktop preferences window pops up, click on the "Advanced" tab and deselect "Show menus provided by window managers when desktop is clicked." That's it!

When we changed the setting, we essentially told the Openbox Window Manager to take over the right-click duties. This switches it back to the PCManFM File Manager that we had by default.

Good luck!

Thanks for updating I have been looking for a solution for ages. I think it is a bug or bad over-site that this is not included in the PCManFM GUI menus.

[bossboy]

all i did is right click select desktop preferences and selected my image (i found it in downloads) double-clicked on the image name and it became my wallpaper almost instantly.

[klricks]

all i did is right click select desktop preferences and selected my image (i found it in downloads) double-clicked on the image name and it became my wallpaper almost instantly.

The title of this thread was misleading. The real problem the OP had was when you right click on desktop then choose Desktop Preferences --> [Advanced] tab and put a check in the box next to:
[x] Show menus provided by window manager when desktop is clicked........ THEN the right click menu is changed to a different menu which does not have Desktop Preferences ... no way to change wallpaper AND no way to click anything to get back to the original right click menu.......
To get back to normal you enter this command from a LXterminal command line:

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 pcmanfm --desktop-pref

The command will bring up a window where your can remove the check from:
[ ] Show menus provided by window manager when desktop is clicked.

[pspotts]

And now that you know the terminal command is pcmanfm --desktop-pref, use obmenu (available in the repository) to up set desktop preferences as an Openbox menu item. Now you'll have it regardless.

[WRustyLane]

I know how to click the screen and pull up desktop preferences. That´s not the question. I want to know how to add a .jpg image file to pi/usr/share/pixel-wallpaper, since that´s where the desktop wall paper is stored in Raspbian Jessie. Every time I try to add a .jpg file to it it will not let me drag and drop that file into the sub folder /pixel-wallpaper. It only returns me to the pi/pictures sub folder. How do I get my own .jpg file added into the /pixel-wallpaper folder??? I do not care for the included .jpg files in the wall paper supplied by Raspbian Jessie. I want to use my very own file. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to unlock the /pixel-wallpaper sub folder to include my own .jpg file. Any ideas???

Rusty in eastern Tennessee

[gkaiseril]

Check your permissions to copy files to that directory. You may need to use the terminal and the ¨sudo¨ command to perform the copy.

Edited to add:

When I use the file manger to make a copy of a wallpaper file already in the directory, I got a pop-up stating access permission was denied. You may need to make the pop-up full size to see the entire message.

One can also access the permissions in the file manager by using the right mouse button in either window.

You can also put the image in one of your user folders and just point the selection of the wallpaper to that file in that folder. Of course you will not see all the wallpapers available in one folder.

[klricks]

I know how to click the screen and pull up desktop preferences. That´s not the question. I want to know how to add a .jpg image file to pi/usr/share/pixel-wallpaper, since that´s where the desktop wall paper is stored in Raspbian Jessie. Every time I try to add a .jpg file to it it will not let me drag and drop that file into the sub folder /pixel-wallpaper. It only returns me to the pi/pictures sub folder. How do I get my own .jpg file added into the /pixel-wallpaper folder??? I do not care for the included .jpg files in the wall paper supplied by Raspbian Jessie. I want to use my very own file. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to unlock the /pixel-wallpaper sub folder to include my own .jpg file. Any ideas???

Rusty in eastern Tennessee

Whenever you modify any file or directory which does not belong to current user (pi) /home/pi/...... then you must use sudo command.
From a lxterminal prompt you can start filemanager with elevated privileges like this:

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sudo pcmanfm

(You can open 2 filemangers to make it easy to drag and drop from one place to another).

You can of course use the command line copy command sudo cp.......... instead of filemanager.