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Having made no changes to my system, I booted/logged-in today to an odd behaviour: the wallpaper I see at login persists into the session. I have a wide image I use to span two monitors, but the "spanned" version doesn't show up when the login is complete. Instead, it looks like this:

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Note the Ubuntu logos (x2) in the lower left of "each" pane, the mis-match of paper to monitor, and (most of all!) the lack of spanning.

I have:

  • re-booted, to no avail;
  • attempted to reset the wallpaper, but new settings don't "take", although when I run gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.desktop.background, the new image file appears as the org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri value; and
  • checked "unity tweak tool", but didn't notice anything amiss.

The output for gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.nautilus.desktop is:

org.gnome.nautilus.desktop trash-icon-name 'Trash'
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop text-ellipsis-limit 3
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop background-fade true
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop home-icon-visible false
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop trash-icon-visible false
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop network-icon-visible false
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop font ''
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop network-icon-name 'Network Servers'
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop home-icon-name ''
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop volumes-visible false

The system otherwise seems to be functioning properly.

I'm on 14.04 LTS (at least for a little while longer!). Any help appreciated!

Original image at Wikimedia Commons if anyone is interested. :)
I got the gsettings commands from a related question which, sadly, has no answers.

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I'm not sure this constitutes an "answer" -- but in the midst of doing some routine work (Evince was the active program at that moment, but several others were also open), the problem cleared. I have now re-set the wallpaper back to the spanning "Urnersee Panorama" crop (noted in OP's question), and it is displaying in all its glory.

So this is quite mysterious. One doesn't like "mysterious" when it comes to computer settings, so if anyone can shed light on the phenomenon, that would still be a help.

Update And just as mysteriously, the non-spanning glitch is back. As I said, "One doesn't like 'mysterious' when it comes to computer settings..."! Hopefully this time around it will "clear" soon, too. But it shouldn't happen at all. Something isn't "clearing" on the way to a stable system, perhaps?

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