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I am using Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome Shell and unity and I was wondering how to change the desktop wallpaper form terminal or command line .

I found the following but i can't seem to get it to work ,

gconftool-2 --set /apps/compiz/plugins/wallpaper/screen0/options/images --type list --list-type string "[file:/path/to/first.png:100,file:/path/to/second.png:100]"
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  • Do you get an error message? I don't know if this is your problem, but the man page says that the key name is a parameter, not an option, so you should try putting it after the options, e.g. gconftool-2 --set --type list --list-type string /apps "[file...]".
    – Mikel
    Mar 17, 2011 at 3:26

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I would do this if I were you: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri file:///path/to/img.jpg (tip from here)

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I would try this:

$ gconftool-2 --type list --list-type string --set /apps/compiz/plugins/wallpaper/screen0/options/images "[file:/path/to/first.png:100,file:/path/to/second.png:100]"

It successfully sets that key/value for me:

$ gconftool-2 -R /apps/compiz/plugins/wallpaper 
 /apps/compiz/plugins/wallpaper/screen0:
  /apps/compiz/plugins/wallpaper/screen0/options:
   bg_color2 = []
   bg_image_pos = []
   bg_fill_type = []
   images = [file:/path/to/first.png:100,file:/path/to/second.png:100]
   bg_image = []
   bg_color1 = []
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