Some GNOME help

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Well, to start off, I am running Slackware 9.1. I am using GNOME (thanks to Lovechild ) The problem is it didn't show any background image for the desktop. So I downloaded one off of http://art.gnome.org. It's a *.jpg image.. I try to change the background and it says:

I don't know how to opent the file *.jpg. Perhaps it's a picture that's not supported yet. Please choose a difference picture.

So then I tried a *.png image and the same thing happens.. what am I doing wrong..? I searched google and came up with null results..

Thanks,
Shebang

[shebang]

Alright.. I found out something.. As long as I am running Nautilus, the background image shows up. But the unrecognized picture thing still exists. I will try and tell you more about it.

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I tried to open the *.png image in the GIMP (while in GNOME) and it doesn't recognize it either.. I check the File Types and Apps. and png is listed. I'm still sort of confused.
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I closed Nautilus and the background still exists. ??? I don't know why. However, the picture problem still exists
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Sounds like you need something like gnome-mime-data. Grab it from gnome.org:

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-mime-data/

Good luck.

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Actually, I already had GNOME-MIME-DATA..

but anyways, I found out what was wrong. .my permissions on the file were 111 and i changed it to 777.. How did I know? thanks to `xv`. I tried xv *.png and permission denied so i changed it and now everything works....

Thanks for all the help guys..