On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:12 AM, "Germán A. Racca"
<german.racca(a)gmail.com>wrote:
On 02/25/2013 03:05 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:19 AM, "Germán A. Racca"
> <german.racca(a)gmail.com <mailto:german.racca@gmail.com**>> wrote:
>
> On 02/25/2013 11:44 AM, Richard Vickery wrote:
>
> I meant the former, as did Mr. O'Connor. The experience was the
> same in
> 17 as it seems to be in KDE. But my preference is to use Gnome.
> Which
> line of code am I to put where to get the same effect in Gnome?
> Perhaps
> this question is better put to the Developers group.
>
>
> Use this command to see how the image is rendered:
>
> $ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.background picture-options
>
> and this command to change the rendering option:
>
> $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-options OPTION
>
> where OPTION can be one of the following values:
>
> none, wallpaper, centered, scaled, stretched, zoom, spanned.
>
> For example, to set a wallpaper with zoom option:
>
> $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-options zoom
>
> HTH,
> Germán.
>
> On Feb 24, 2013 7:40 PM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr."
> <eoconnor25(a)gmail.com <mailto:eoconnor25@gmail.com>
> <mailto:eoconnor25@gmail.com
<mailto:eoconnor25@gmail.com>>**>
> wrote:
>
> On 02/24/2013 10:30 PM, Bill Oliver wrote:
>
>
> Are you talking about the desktop background image? I
> think
> that's a function of which desktop you are using. I
> use KDE,
> and nothing has changed -- you just right click on the
> background, choose "Default Desktop Settings" then
> choose (or
> open) the image, then pick the "scaled" option. I
> don't know
> how it's done in Gnome.
>
> Or do you mean the splash screen? I haven't played with
> that...
>
> billo
>
> On Sun, 24 Feb 2013, Richard Vickery wrote:
>
> In 17 there was an easy way to scale a photo for a
> background to the screen. In Fedora 18 this ease is
> gone. Is
> there a way to scale a photo to fit the screen
> without the
> ease of a button that I can do on my own?
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
>
>
> Well I cannot speak for Mr. Vickery, but I was talking
> about the
> little button that was visible when you chose an image to
> become
> your desktop background in Gnome, this button gave you the
> options
> of Fill.....Center.....Tile......**____Span......Stretch etc
>
> the image
>
> you chose. It seems that as of F18 that's al changed? or was
> it
> changed within an update, because I seem to recall being
> able to do
> it! But with the button gone, when you select a picture,
> there's no
> way to scale it or stretch it or ANYTHING....all you have
> is the
> picture, and if it's not displayed properly you're pretty
> much
> "fluffed"!....
>
>
> WGO II
>
>
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> Thanks very much German! (Please forgive my lack of the accent; I lack
> the expertise of how to add this)
>
You are very welcome... no problem about the accent :)
Germán.
How about background- colour options with my picture; it only gives a black
background, where before I chose blue. This option, however, is not as
important.