change permissions to copy pictures into backgrounds

[Colin Law]

On 8 May 2012 17:39, Thomas Blasejewicz <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp> wrote:
> (2012/05/09 1:11), compdoc wrote:
>>>
>>> owner: Thomas Blasejewicz
>>
>> I don't understand that. In the Linux distros I've known, you cannot have
>> a
>> user name that contains capital letters. Nor have I ever seen a username
>> containing 2 names separated by a space.
>>
>> Maybe you're being too descriptive, and 'thomas' is the actual owner?
>>
>>
>>> the "default folder" for wallpapers appears to be:
>>> /usr/share/backgrounds
>>> owner: root
>>> group: root
>>
>> If the folder is owned by root, then use sudo to move any files into that
>> folder, and change permissions if necessary...
>>
> Click on the "Pictures" folder that was already there (I did not create it)
> and look at properties:
> thomas - Thomas Blasejewicz
> THAT is what I get on my screen as "owner"
>
>>> "use sudo to move any files ..."
> I am trying (for hours already), but have no success at all.
>
> hold on ... I have just (for reasons unknown) succeeded in copyint my
> pictures.
> Fine.
>
> BUT, they do NOT show up when I open "Appearance -> Look -> Wallpapers
> Only those "default images" show.
> Why?

You are doing it again, completely ignoring some posts and not
explaining why you can't just use the Change Background app to select
pictures from the Pictures folder (which I see /has/ got a capital P
even though you posted it previously lower case.  Perhaps that is why
you were having problems.

Few people care whether putting pictures into /usr/share/backgrounds
makes them appear automatically as most just browse from the Change
Background app and select them from wherever they are on the PC.

Colin