To disable gnome-settings daemon from messing with your background
If you are like me, and do not use much of gnome, when you start a gnome application, it may start gnome-settings-daemon, which will mess with your background.
gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/background/active --type bool False
Thank you to: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-874816.html
Syndicated 2011-02-08 11:03:00 (Updated 2011-03-02 17:14:36) from Michael's musings