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The usual desktop right click -> Change Desktop Background option does not open the wallpapers dialog box. This may be unrelated, but I installed the Nemo package.

The following is the result of uname -a :
Linux konoha 3.13.0-35-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 15 01:58:42 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Tried restarting the system and the problem persists. Should this be raised as a bug in launchpad ?

Kenpachi
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I had the same problem, this command worked for: 

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.background active true
saiRegrefree
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This is definitely due to Nemo. I suspect that nemo is now handling your desktop, and it tries to open Cinnamon's settings instead of Unity's, according to How to change Wallpaper-preferences from nemo to nautilus.

This forum post has a solution:

  • If you update nemo using the ppa from webupd8.org, this is fixed.
  • If you don't want to use the PPA you can try adding this file as change-background2.nemo_action to ~/.local/share/nemo/actions/. It works but you still have the old "Change Background" entry as well.

There's also the third option: compiling from source, which is discussed in the question I linked to in the first paragraph.

If you want to file a bug, file it with Nemo. It used to be that cinnamon was a dependency of Nemo, but that was fixed, but it looks like some dangling ends are left.

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muru
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