Your gconf change is a workaround, it's written nowhere than set the gconf key to the same value it already has should trigger an update, the efficient way is to no make any change when not required. As a workaround you can try to set the value to something else and then back to the value you want to use. The real bug there is the one pointed upstream
-- Desktop Background Image doesn't refresh when calling gconftool https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108110 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
