How to add wallpapers in Gnome?

[eleius]

When I go to Settings > Background > Add picture… it lets me browse my pictures but the “Open” button is always greyed out. Same if I choose “Change background” when clicking right mouse button on desktop. I tried selecting files, folders, anything, and even creating /usr/share/backgrounds/ and copying files there, it just won’t let me change the desktop wallpaper. Any idea?

edit: it works if I choose an image from Tweak Tool > Appearance > Background… still don’t know why it doesn’t work from Settings.

[pebcak]

@eleius

Settings > Background > Add picture… it lets me browse my pictures but the “Open” button is always greyed out.

This works on my end.

[Bryanpwo]

This is just a shot in the dark, did you reboot the machine? There were some core updates recently that may cause this issue.

[eleius]

Yes, rebooted a few times. I should have mentioned I uninstalled endeavouros-theming because I wanted to use my own themes, icons and wallpapers.

[Bryanpwo]

That doesn’t affect Gnome, the theming is only active for Xfce.

[Bryanpwo]

How did you install Gnome, with the online installer or manually next to another DE?

[eleius]

I used the online installer to install EOS a few hours ago, but then I also added and removed several programs, not sure if I did something wrong. Anyway, it works from Tweak Tool, maybe it’s just a bug in Gnome or something like that.

[mshmm]

I thought Gnome had removed the wallpaper feature? (bad joke sorry)

[Bryanpwo]

I just checked it in a VM and it works over there, I think you have removed a dependency.

[eleius]

Ok, thanks everyone for your quick replies! (and bad jokes )