Black background in all desktops after Ubuntu 13.10 upgrade

So I just upgraded my Dell XPS 13 laptop from Ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10, and immediately the first thing I noticed that all of my desktops had a black background. and manually changing the background wallpaper took no effect. Turns out this is a common problem. In my case it turned out to be related to Gnome, which I found it to be rather interesting giving that a Gnome specific setting will cause this problem in Unity.

Fix

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.background active true

Resources

• http://askubuntu.com/questions/287571/desktop-shows-a-white-or-black-background-instead-of-wallpapers

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