# Gradient background doesn't seem to work
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gradient-background-doesnt-seem-to-work/3859
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 21, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gradient-background-doesnt-seem-to-work/3859 "2020-03-21T04:45:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@JuliusNepos](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/JuliusNepos)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gradient-background-doesnt-seem-to-work/3859/1 "2020-03-21T04:45:07Z")
Very new to ParaView here. Running a recent version (5.7?) under Ubuntu Linux v 18.0.4 for OpenFoam data. Trying to create a gradient screen background. I open the “Paint Palette” thingy at the top and it lets me select the two gradient colors. Gradient color #1 works {as you can see I set it to grey}, but Gradient color #2 Never works. It always remains very dark blue or black. As you can see here I set it to light green (and clicked Apply) but it remains dk blue or black.
Is there any way to achieve this?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gradient-background-doesnt-seem-to-work/3859/2 "2020-03-23T02:02:09Z")
That’s a bug !
Could you open an issue here :
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues)
?
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### Author:  [@JuliusNepos](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/JuliusNepos)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2020, 6:58pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gradient-background-doesnt-seem-to-work/3859/3 "2020-03-23T18:58:38Z")
Thanks. I just did so.
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/19788](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/19788)
A minor correction: my ParaView version is 5.6.0 64-bit, Qt Version 5.9.5.
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### Author:  [@JuliusNepos](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/JuliusNepos)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gradient-background-doesnt-seem-to-work/3859/4 "2020-03-23T19:37:58Z")
[quote=“JuliusNepos, post:1, topic:3859”]
from the ParaFolks–
Thanks John for this bug report. Yep, this is the place to report bugs. This is also a very well written one.
This bug was already reported here: [#15757](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/15757). It is scheduled to get fixed this fall. As always, if we ask the developers to do 18 months of work in 6 months, some stuff will slip. We will see.
Duplicate. Closing.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gradient-background-doesnt-seem-to-work/3859/5 "2020-03-24T01:35:38Z")
Thanks, I should have checked the current issues first.
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### Author:  [@steve\_r](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/steve_r)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gradient-background-doesnt-seem-to-work/3859/6 "2020-11-11T14:04:53Z")
Is there any progress on this bug? I was stumbling across this problem just recently.
I also wonder if the gradient background should be supported by the various render engines automatically or if they need to implement it themselves.
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gradient-background-doesnt-seem-to-work/3859/7 "2021-08-19T19:35:37Z")
Yes, it will be fixed in ParaView 5.10.