I've been trying to create an icon for a music app with the Gimp. Part of the icon needed a waveform from a running music app, so thinking I was being clever I went for aquire screenshot with the Gimp. Now I've ended up with a graduated green background for FC2, and revert won't work.
The original FC2 background was dark blue with Fedora core 2 in the top right corner.
Anyone know where I can find it? At the moment I'm stuck with the KDE blue swirl thing, but would be nice to get the one back that I'm used to.
Please. No comments about using ancient FC versions. I'm just trying to fix a problem.
Nigel.
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 20:47 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
I've been trying to create an icon for a music app with the Gimp. Part of the icon needed a waveform from a running music app, so thinking I was being clever I went for aquire screenshot with the Gimp. Now I've ended up with a graduated green background for FC2, and revert won't work.
The original FC2 background was dark blue with Fedora core 2 in the top right corner.
Anyone know where I can find it? At the moment I'm stuck with the KDE blue swirl thing, but would be nice to get the one back that I'm used to.
Please. No comments about using ancient FC versions. I'm just trying to fix a problem.
Have you tried right-clicking on the background and selecting "change desktop wallpaper"?
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On Friday 23 March 2007 22:02, Rick Stevens wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 20:47 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
I've been trying to create an icon for a music app with the Gimp. Part of the icon needed a waveform from a running music app, so thinking I was being clever I went for aquire screenshot with the Gimp. Now I've ended up with a graduated green background for FC2, and revert won't work.
The original FC2 background was dark blue with Fedora core 2 in the top right corner.
Anyone know where I can find it? At the moment I'm stuck with the KDE blue swirl thing, but would be nice to get the one back that I'm used to.
Please. No comments about using ancient FC versions. I'm just trying to fix a problem.
Have you tried right-clicking on the background and selecting "change desktop wallpaper"?
Tried that, and no options, but I had Debian running on the other machine, and rebooted to FC2, and on that /usr/share/backgrounds/images/default.png shows the dark blue background with text in white in the top write hand corner. I tried the same path on the machine with the problem, and now have the dark blue background, but with no text. All a bit weird, and can't understand how saving a screenshot with the Gimp has changed my background without asking permission.
Anyway. I know I'm running FC2, so it's no big deal, just damned annoying to have lost the Fedora core 2 text on the background.
Nigel.
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 23:11 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2007 22:02, Rick Stevens wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 20:47 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
I've been trying to create an icon for a music app with the Gimp. Part of the icon needed a waveform from a running music app, so thinking I was being clever I went for aquire screenshot with the Gimp. Now I've ended up with a graduated green background for FC2, and revert won't work.
The original FC2 background was dark blue with Fedora core 2 in the top right corner.
Anyone know where I can find it? At the moment I'm stuck with the KDE blue swirl thing, but would be nice to get the one back that I'm used to.
Please. No comments about using ancient FC versions. I'm just trying to fix a problem.
Have you tried right-clicking on the background and selecting "change desktop wallpaper"?
Tried that, and no options, but I had Debian running on the other machine, and rebooted to FC2, and on that /usr/share/backgrounds/images/default.png shows the dark blue background with text in white in the top write hand corner. I tried the same path on the machine with the problem, and now have the dark blue background, but with no text. All a bit weird, and can't understand how saving a screenshot with the Gimp has changed my background without asking permission.
Anyway. I know I'm running FC2, so it's no big deal, just damned annoying to have lost the Fedora core 2 text on the background.
Yeah, it's a bit weird. I've not used FC2 in a LONG time, so I can't remember how that version of Gnome works. Perhaps one of the other, much smarter people on the list could help.
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On Friday 23 March 2007 22:02, Rick Stevens wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 20:47 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
I've been trying to create an icon for a music app with the Gimp. Part of the icon needed a waveform from a running music app, so thinking I was being clever I went for aquire screenshot with the Gimp. Now I've ended up with a graduated green background for FC2, and revert won't work.
The original FC2 background was dark blue with Fedora core 2 in the top right corner.
Anyone know where I can find it? At the moment I'm stuck with the KDE blue swirl thing, but would be nice to get the one back that I'm used to.
Please. No comments about using ancient FC versions. I'm just trying to fix a problem.
Have you tried right-clicking on the background and selecting "change desktop wallpaper"?
Yeh. Tried that. I found the background in /usr/share/backgrounds/images, and called that one from KDE's control centre, but even though the text was displayed in /usr/share/backgrounds/images, it wasn't showing up on the desktop. I finally fixed it by changing "Centred" to "Centred Auto Fit" , which then displayed the FC2 text.
I never thought the Gimp would mess with my background on the desktop when I simply clicked "Aquire screenshot" in the Gimp.
I'm going about this another way now. I've taken a screenshot using Kscreenshot, and will attempt to open it in the Gimp. Perhaps I can crop it to just leave the waveform I want for the icon. Methinks.
Nigel.
On 3/23/07, Nigel Henry cave.dnb@tiscali.fr wrote:
I've been trying to create an icon for a music app with the Gimp. Part of the icon needed a waveform from a running music app, so thinking I was being clever I went for aquire screenshot with the Gimp. Now I've ended up with a graduated green background for FC2, and revert won't work.
The original FC2 background was dark blue with Fedora core 2 in the top right corner.
Anyone know where I can find it? At the moment I'm stuck with the KDE blue swirl thing, but would be nice to get the one back that I'm used to.
Please. No comments about using ancient FC versions. I'm just trying to fix a problem.
Nigel.
http://www.pembo13.com/pub/fc2-default-wallpaper.png
On Friday 23 March 2007 23:27, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On 3/23/07, Nigel Henry cave.dnb@tiscali.fr wrote:
I've been trying to create an icon for a music app with the Gimp. Part of the icon needed a waveform from a running music app, so thinking I was being clever I went for aquire screenshot with the Gimp. Now I've ended up with a graduated green background for FC2, and revert won't work.
The original FC2 background was dark blue with Fedora core 2 in the top right corner.
Anyone know where I can find it? At the moment I'm stuck with the KDE blue swirl thing, but would be nice to get the one back that I'm used to.
Please. No comments about using ancient FC versions. I'm just trying to fix a problem.
Nigel.
Thanks for that link Arthur. I have fixed it as I have just replied to Rick, but darned annoying that the Gimp caused this problem, and messed with my desktop background.
Nigel.