No background/wallpaper in Ubuntu 12.04 - what to do?

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Published on 2012-05-28T20:34:09Z Indexed on 2012/12/06 11:31 UTC
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This is how my desktop looks like after moving Firefox window arround:

enter image description here The background just doesn't redraw, there is no wallpaper. It is like that since update to 12.04 - it was the same in 11.10 but I had special intel drivers then that fixed this problem. Doesn't seem to be fixed in 12.04 even with the ppa I was using then. What can I do? I couldn't find anything about it on Google because results were unrelated. :( I have Samsung RF-511 notebook with Nvidia card turned off - so it's using only Intel from i7.

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