Cannot change wallpaper in Openbox

[lmlearner]

When I right-click on the Desktop I could see the standard menu (e.g. make new folder, delete to trash and so on). There was an option in the menu to switch to "openbox" so I did that to see what happened. That changed the menu I see whren I right-click the Desktop. I want to get rid of the "openbox" version of the right-click GUI. How do I do that?
Now I'm not able to change wallpaper. If I exit Openbox, the desktop kind of freezes. Firefox runs in a window, minimize/ maximize buttons disappear, sometimes it crashes, desktop right click gets disabled etc.

Is there a way to change wallpaper from this Openbox GUI?

Thanks.

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aswin@aswin-Inspiron-1440 ~ $ inxi -Fc 0
System:    Host aswin-Inspiron-1440 Kernel 3.0.0-12-generic i686 (32 bit)
           Desktop LXDE (Openbox 3.5.0) Distro Linux Mint 12 LXDE
Machine:   System Dell (portable) product Inspiron 1440
           Mobo Dell model 0K138P Bios Dell version A07 date 12/21/2009
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core2 Duo CPU P7450 (-MCP-) cache 3072 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3)
           Clock Speeds: (1) 800.00 MHz (2) 2134.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
           X.Org 1.10.4 drivers intel unloaded: fbdev,vesa Resolution 1366x768@60.0hz
           GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.11
Audio:     Card Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller driver HDA Intel Sound: ALSA v: 1.0.24
Network:   Card-1 Intel WiFi Link 5100 driver iwlagn
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: 00:24:d6:78:20:be
           Card-2 Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller driver r8169
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: a4:ba:db:93:40:cf
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (61.1% used) 1: /dev/sda ST9500325AS 500.1GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 11G used: 3.5G (41%) fs: btrfs ID:/home size: 11G used: 3.5G (41%) fs: btrfs
           ID:swap-1 size: 0.19GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors:   Error: You do not have the sensors app installed.
Info:      Processes 145 Uptime 8:41 Memory 268.2/3495.2MB Client Shell inxi 1.7.7

[ashwin]

Go to /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint/ folder and save the jpg file with 'Read' permission for 'others'.
Set it as wallpaper and it should work.

If the wallpaper named 'wp' is initially in /media/Data, do the following:

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sudo cp /media/Data/wp.jpg /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint/
cd /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint/
sudo chmod a+r wp.jpg

[mank_in]

Do you mean like this post : viewtopic.php?f=175&t=98427

[ashwin]

Do you mean like this post : viewtopic.php?f=175&t=98427

Precisely. pcmanfm opens up the dialog box I was looking for.
But I reinstalled Mint and have taken extra care not to enable 'show menus provided by window managers when desktop is clicked'.
Thank you very much.

PS: I'm the thread starter from a different ID.