Scaling

Richard Vickery richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 14:44:51 UTC 2013


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.
On Feb 24, 2013 7:40 PM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25 at 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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