After few reboots of openSUSE 11.1 the default wallpaper get darked 
and it don’t want to be colored again :\ (I haven’t change anything, I even haven’t installed drivers for video card).
Screenshot →
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/3573/wallpapergp6.th.png](http://img185.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wallpapergp6.png)
It happens not only on my PC…
Interesting.
What happens when you change the wallpaper?
Does the problem continue even after you install video driver?
I have this too on both laptop and desktop PC
also this happens in past with oS11.0
I am don’t know how to fix this…
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WBR
What about other wallpapers?
Sounds that you discovered the feature to change the wallpaper automatically depending on the day time… 
personnally I am not try other… but I try to change
it happens time to time…
And it really looks like some effect. But i am not apply any. It apeares and disappears unexpactly…
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WBR
The default Gnome wallpaper on OS 11.1 is changing darkness according the time of the day.
It uses 4 images and by the looks of it your screenshot is from around midnight and that would be the darkest image
of them all
look under /usr/share/backgrounds/glass. It shows 4 images and a XML file witch controls the color changing of your background.
LOL
wow
this explaine a lot 
thank you very much
WBR
WOW I thought it was just a bug 
Can I do such thing with a custom wallpaper?
Wow, awesome
Hmm, but is there a way to change background wallpaper it the login screen?
I’ve been having fits with my new pc set up. I thought the wallpaper getting darker was one of the symptoms or I had been slipped some crazy pills. 
I was looking for new wallpaper designs, and when I started reading this thread, I saw the topic of the “darkening” of the initial wallpaper.
This happened to my installation, too. I was surprised. It is nice to read that it is not a flaw, but something that is built into the program.
