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In 20.04, I was trying out the desktop/background pictures and decided that I didn't like any of them.

There doesn't seem to be an obvious way to go back to "blank"?

I mean - I could create a flat black (my preference) in gimp and choose that as my background image - but surely resetting the desktop to "nothing but flat colour" shouldn't require that much work?

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    `gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri ''` should do the job. – PRATAP May 17 '20 at 22:01
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    if you want to set the color other than black.. run `gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background primary-color blue` followed by above command. – PRATAP May 17 '20 at 22:03
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    https://askubuntu.com/q/1169145/739431 – PRATAP May 17 '20 at 22:05
  • This is a dupe [No background options other than default pictures](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1190066/no-background-options-other-than-default-pictures) and I left a comment there as to why GNOME removed the plain color background option. – Dan Dascalescu Aug 22 '20 at 01:27
  • Does this answer your question? [How to get non-image (plain) desktop background?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1169145/how-to-get-non-image-plain-desktop-background) – karel Aug 22 '20 at 06:16

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The capability is there just not through the Settings GUI. This Ask Ubuntu answer provides details for setting the desktop background either with gsettings command or using dconf-editor.

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