How to change desktop background colour in GNOME?

Question

I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18, and I have set an image as my desktop background, it has a white bit around it, however when I set it to be "Spanned" on my desktop in the GNOME Tweak Tool it is put in the middle with two big black bits next to it:

So how can I make those black bits go white? How can I change the background colour to white (well, the black bits that is, that's what it would have been called on Unity)?

Don't create a new "colours" tag, as we already have a "colors" tag! :P — Byte Commander, Nov 19 '15 at 10:42
@ByteCommander: Why not just get rid of the American one then so that we only have one proper one? >:P — , Nov 19 '15 at 13:59

A.B. · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-19T10:44:12.093

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Use gsettings to set the color white (#FFFFFF) and a solid fill.

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background primary-color "#FFFFFF"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background secondary-color "#FFFFFF"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background color-shading-type "solid"

edited Nov 19 '15 at 10:44

answered Nov 18 '15 at 12:29

A.B.

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You can check the possible settings for org.gnome.desktop.background in here: https://github.com/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/blob/master/schemas/org.gnome.desktop.background.gschema.xml.in – Zedzdead Aug 30 '22 at 00:25

How to change desktop background colour in GNOME?

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