Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a response? Here's the original inquiry again:
I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was on its last legs, so I assisted them in installing F18, but the feature for handling the desktop background is gone...(missing? kidnapped?) Can anyone help with what needs to be done in order to get it back?
Thanks To All
EGO II
On Mar 16, 2013 9:09 PM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." eoconnor25@gmail.com wrote:
Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a response?
Here's the original inquiry again:
I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the Options
for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was on its last legs, so I assisted them in installing F18, but the feature for handling the desktop background is gone...(missing? kidnapped?) Can anyone help with what needs to be done in order to get it back?
Thanks To All
EGO II
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I have a Dell Inspirion 1420 and found this feature - in Gnome after clicking the user in the upper right corner, System Settings --> Background (all of which is probably redundant as you have probably done this) - then, with seemingly the same issue you have where there are no buttons, after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point is.
Hope this helps,
Richard
On 03/17/2013 11:10 AM, Richard Vickery wrote:
On Mar 16, 2013 9:09 PM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25@gmail.com mailto:eoconnor25@gmail.com> wrote:
Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a
response? Here's the original inquiry again:
I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the
Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was on its last legs, so I assisted them in installing F18, but the feature for handling the desktop background is gone...(missing? kidnapped?) Can anyone help with what needs to be done in order to get it back?
Thanks To All
EGO II
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I have a Dell Inspirion 1420 and found this feature - in Gnome after clicking the user in the upper right corner, System Settings --> Background (all of which is probably redundant as you have probably done this) - then, with seemingly the same issue you have where there are no buttons, after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point is.
Hope this helps,
Richard
"after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point is" I'm thinking you mean the actual picture you want to be set as your background? Yeah, I'm clicking on that and I still get no settings that will allow me to set whether the background is Tiled.....Centered.......Fills the screen...Scales to size etc. I wonder if there's a configuration file that can be altered?....and Thanks for the reply!!
EGO II
On Mar 17, 2013 10:00 AM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." eoconnor25@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/17/2013 11:10 AM, Richard Vickery wrote:
On Mar 16, 2013 9:09 PM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." eoconnor25@gmail.com
wrote:
Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a
response? Here's the original inquiry again:
I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the
Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was on its last legs, so I assisted them in installing F18, but the feature for handling the desktop background is gone...(missing? kidnapped?) Can anyone help with what needs to be done in order to get it back?
Thanks To All
EGO II
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I have a Dell Inspirion 1420 and found this feature - in Gnome after
clicking the user in the upper right corner, System Settings --> Background (all of which is probably redundant as you have probably done this) - then, with seemingly the same issue you have where there are no buttons, after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point is.
Hope this helps,
Richard
"after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point is"
I'm thinking you mean the actual picture you want to be set as your background? Yeah, I'm clicking on that and I still get no settings that will allow me to set whether the background is Tiled.....Centered.......Fills the screen...Scales to size etc. I wonder if there's a configuration file that can be altered?....and Thanks for the reply!!
EGO II
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Not the image that you want, yet; click on the image inside the square. This will give you the options for choosing a new image, and resizing is:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-options scaled
EGO, it's at the end of this email. Sorry for the delay; I thought I had sent this up.
Best regards, Richard On Mar 17, 2013 10:25 AM, "Richard Vickery" richard.vickeryrv@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 17, 2013 10:00 AM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." eoconnor25@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/17/2013 11:10 AM, Richard Vickery wrote:
On Mar 16, 2013 9:09 PM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." eoconnor25@gmail.com
wrote:
Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a
response? Here's the original inquiry again:
I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the
Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was on its last legs, so I assisted them in installing F18, but the feature for handling the desktop background is gone...(missing? kidnapped?) Can anyone help with what needs to be done in order to get it back?
Thanks To All
EGO II
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I have a Dell Inspirion 1420 and found this feature - in Gnome after
clicking the user in the upper right corner, System Settings --> Background (all of which is probably redundant as you have probably done this) - then, with seemingly the same issue you have where there are no buttons, after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point is.
Hope this helps,
Richard
"after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point
is" I'm thinking you mean the actual picture you want to be set as your background? Yeah, I'm clicking on that and I still get no settings that will allow me to set whether the background is Tiled.....Centered.......Fills the screen...Scales to size etc. I wonder if there's a configuration file that can be altered?....and Thanks for the reply!!
EGO II
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Not the image that you want, yet; click on the image inside the square. This will give you the options for choosing a new image, and resizing is:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-options scaled
On 03/17/2013 02:51 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
EGO, it's at the end of this email. Sorry for the delay; I thought I had sent this up.
Best regards, Richard
On Mar 17, 2013 10:25 AM, "Richard Vickery" <richard.vickeryrv@gmail.com mailto:richard.vickeryrv@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mar 17, 2013 10:00 AM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25@gmail.com <mailto:eoconnor25@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 03/17/2013 11:10 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: >> >> >> On Mar 16, 2013 9:09 PM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25@gmail.com <mailto:eoconnor25@gmail.com>> wrote: >> > >> > Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a response? Here's the original inquiry again: >> > >> > I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was on its last legs, so I assisted them in installing F18, but the feature for handling the desktop background is gone...(missing? kidnapped?) Can anyone help with what needs to be done in order to get it back? >> > >> > Thanks To All >> > >> > >> > EGO II >> > -- >> > users mailing list >> > users@lists.fedoraproject.org <mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org> >> > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >> >> I have a Dell Inspirion 1420 and found this feature - in Gnome after clicking the user in the upper right corner, System Settings --> Background (all of which is probably redundant as you have probably done this) - then, with seemingly the same issue you have where there are no buttons, after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point is. >> >> Hope this helps, >> >> Richard >> >> > > "after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point is" I'm thinking you mean the actual picture you want to be set as your background? Yeah, I'm clicking on that and I still get no settings that will allow me to set whether the background is Tiled.....Centered.......Fills the screen...Scales to size etc. I wonder if there's a configuration file that can be altered?....and Thanks for the reply!! > > > EGO II > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org <mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > Not the image that you want, yet; click on the image inside the square. This will give you the options for choosing a new image, and resizing is: $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-options scaled
Thanks SO much Richard!Q I think this helped!
EGO II
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. <eoconnor25@gmail.com
wrote:
On 03/17/2013 02:51 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
EGO, it's at the end of this email. Sorry for the delay; I thought I had sent this up.
Best regards, Richard On Mar 17, 2013 10:25 AM, "Richard Vickery" richard.vickeryrv@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 17, 2013 10:00 AM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." eoconnor25@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/17/2013 11:10 AM, Richard Vickery wrote:
On Mar 16, 2013 9:09 PM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." eoconnor25@gmail.com
wrote:
Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a
response? Here's the original inquiry again:
I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the
Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was on its last legs, so I assisted them in installing F18, but the feature for handling the desktop background is gone...(missing? kidnapped?) Can anyone help with what needs to be done in order to get it back?
Thanks To All
EGO II
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I have a Dell Inspirion 1420 and found this feature - in Gnome after
clicking the user in the upper right corner, System Settings --> Background (all of which is probably redundant as you have probably done this) - then, with seemingly the same issue you have where there are no buttons, after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point is.
Hope this helps,
Richard
"after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point
is" I'm thinking you mean the actual picture you want to be set as your background? Yeah, I'm clicking on that and I still get no settings that will allow me to set whether the background is Tiled.....Centered.......Fills the screen...Scales to size etc. I wonder if there's a configuration file that can be altered?....and Thanks for the reply!!
EGO II
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Not the image that you want, yet; click on the image inside the square. This will give you the options for choosing a new image, and resizing is:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-options scaled
Thanks SO much Richard!Q I think this helped!
EGO II
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Glad I could help out!
On 03/18/2013 04:00 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 03/17/2013 11:10 AM, Richard Vickery wrote:
On Mar 16, 2013 9:09 PM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25@gmail.com mailto:eoconnor25@gmail.com> wrote:
Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a
response? Here's the original inquiry again:
I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the
Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was on its last legs, so I assisted them in installing F18, but the feature for handling the desktop background is gone...(missing? kidnapped?) Can anyone help with what needs to be done in order to get it back?
Thanks To All
EGO II
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I have a Dell Inspirion 1420 and found this feature - in Gnome after clicking the user in the upper right corner, System Settings --> Background (all of which is probably redundant as you have probably done this) - then, with seemingly the same issue you have where there are no buttons, after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point is.
Hope this helps,
Richard
"after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point is" I'm thinking you mean the actual picture you want to be set as your background? Yeah, I'm clicking on that and I still get no settings that will allow me to set whether the background is Tiled.....Centered.......Fills the screen...Scales to size etc. I wonder if there's a configuration file that can be altered?....and Thanks for the reply!!
EGO II
I'm not sure which desktop you are using (Gnome, KDE, etc) but I am using KDE and have the desktop configured to folder view in F18 and if you right click on the background then select "Folder View Properties" from the subsequent dialog, the next dialog displayed defaults to the view setting where there is a "positioning" drop down which has all the options selectable that you are looking for.
regards, Steve
On 03/17/2013 04:13 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 03/18/2013 04:00 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 03/17/2013 11:10 AM, Richard Vickery wrote:
On Mar 16, 2013 9:09 PM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25@gmail.com mailto:eoconnor25@gmail.com> wrote:
Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a
response? Here's the original inquiry again:
I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the
Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was on its last legs, so I assisted them in installing F18, but the feature for handling the desktop background is gone...(missing? kidnapped?) Can anyone help with what needs to be done in order to get it back?
Thanks To All
EGO II
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I have a Dell Inspirion 1420 and found this feature - in Gnome after clicking the user in the upper right corner, System Settings --> Background (all of which is probably redundant as you have probably done this) - then, with seemingly the same issue you have where there are no buttons, after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point is.
Hope this helps,
Richard
"after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point is" I'm thinking you mean the actual picture you want to be set as your background? Yeah, I'm clicking on that and I still get no settings that will allow me to set whether the background is Tiled.....Centered.......Fills the screen...Scales to size etc. I wonder if there's a configuration file that can be altered?....and Thanks for the reply!!
EGO II
I'm not sure which desktop you are using (Gnome, KDE, etc) but I am using KDE and have the desktop configured to folder view in F18 and if you right click on the background then select "Folder View Properties" from the subsequent dialog, the next dialog displayed defaults to the view setting where there is a "positioning" drop down which has all the options selectable that you are looking for.
regards, Steve
I'm still using the Gnome desktop, (I happen to find it very appealing...although a lot of folks don't!) And I've just tried Richard's solution, which I THOUGHT was working, apparently, it's not. But it's ok. I will continue to check the config files for gnome and see what I can find. thanks for your help!
EGO II
On 03/18/2013 09:25 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 03/17/2013 04:13 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 03/18/2013 04:00 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 03/17/2013 11:10 AM, Richard Vickery wrote:
On Mar 16, 2013 9:09 PM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25@gmail.com mailto:eoconnor25@gmail.com> wrote:
Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a
response? Here's the original inquiry again:
I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the
Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was on its last legs, so I assisted them in installing F18, but the feature for handling the desktop background is gone...(missing? kidnapped?) Can anyone help with what needs to be done in order to get it back?
Thanks To All
EGO II
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I have a Dell Inspirion 1420 and found this feature - in Gnome after clicking the user in the upper right corner, System Settings --> Background (all of which is probably redundant as you have probably done this) - then, with seemingly the same issue you have where there are no buttons, after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point is.
Hope this helps,
Richard
"after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point is" I'm thinking you mean the actual picture you want to be set as your background? Yeah, I'm clicking on that and I still get no settings that will allow me to set whether the background is Tiled.....Centered.......Fills the screen...Scales to size etc. I wonder if there's a configuration file that can be altered?....and Thanks for the reply!!
EGO II
I'm not sure which desktop you are using (Gnome, KDE, etc) but I am using KDE and have the desktop configured to folder view in F18 and if you right click on the background then select "Folder View Properties" from the subsequent dialog, the next dialog displayed defaults to the view setting where there is a "positioning" drop down which has all the options selectable that you are looking for.
regards, Steve
I'm still using the Gnome desktop, (I happen to find it very appealing...although a lot of folks don't!) And I've just tried Richard's solution, which I THOUGHT was working, apparently, it's not. But it's ok. I will continue to check the config files for gnome and see what I can find. thanks for your help!
EGO II
If you are using Gnome, I read in one of the Australian Magazines a while ago that the Gnome developers removed a lot of the configuration options from Gnome 3, and there there was a tool that could be downloaded that reintroduced a number of them that the magazine recommended as being the first download that should be done for Gnome 3. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the tool and I don't have the article anymore as I stopped using Gnome the first time I tried it when I found that I couldn't right click on the desktop and create application links.
regards, Steve
On 03/19/2013 02:03 AM, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 03/18/2013 09:25 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 03/17/2013 04:13 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 03/18/2013 04:00 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 03/17/2013 11:10 AM, Richard Vickery wrote:
On Mar 16, 2013 9:09 PM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25@gmail.com mailto:eoconnor25@gmail.com> wrote:
Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a
response? Here's the original inquiry again:
I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the
Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was on its last legs, so I assisted them in installing F18, but the feature for handling the desktop background is gone...(missing? kidnapped?) Can anyone help with what needs to be done in order to get it back?
Thanks To All
EGO II
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I have a Dell Inspirion 1420 and found this feature - in Gnome after clicking the user in the upper right corner, System Settings --> Background (all of which is probably redundant as you have probably done this) - then, with seemingly the same issue you have where there are no buttons, after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point is.
Hope this helps,
Richard
"after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point is" I'm thinking you mean the actual picture you want to be set as your background? Yeah, I'm clicking on that and I still get no settings that will allow me to set whether the background is Tiled.....Centered.......Fills the screen...Scales to size etc. I wonder if there's a configuration file that can be altered?....and Thanks for the reply!!
EGO II
I'm not sure which desktop you are using (Gnome, KDE, etc) but I am using KDE and have the desktop configured to folder view in F18 and if you right click on the background then select "Folder View Properties" from the subsequent dialog, the next dialog displayed defaults to the view setting where there is a "positioning" drop down which has all the options selectable that you are looking for.
regards, Steve
I'm still using the Gnome desktop, (I happen to find it very appealing...although a lot of folks don't!) And I've just tried Richard's solution, which I THOUGHT was working, apparently, it's not. But it's ok. I will continue to check the config files for gnome and see what I can find. thanks for your help!
EGO II
If you are using Gnome, I read in one of the Australian Magazines a while ago that the Gnome developers removed a lot of the configuration options from Gnome 3, and there there was a tool that could be downloaded that reintroduced a number of them that the magazine recommended as being the first download that should be done for Gnome 3. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the tool and I don't have the article anymore as I stopped using Gnome the first time I tried it when I found that I couldn't right click on the desktop and create application links.
regards, Steve
You might be referring to 'gnome-tweak-tool' .
On 03/19/2013 04:05 AM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
On 03/19/2013 02:03 AM, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 03/18/2013 09:25 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 03/17/2013 04:13 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 03/18/2013 04:00 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 03/17/2013 11:10 AM, Richard Vickery wrote:
On Mar 16, 2013 9:09 PM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25@gmail.com mailto:eoconnor25@gmail.com> wrote: > Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a response? Here's the original inquiry again: > I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was on its last legs, so I assisted them in installing F18, but the feature for handling the desktop background is gone...(missing? kidnapped?) Can anyone help with what needs to be done in order to get it back? > Thanks To All > > > EGO II > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org I have a Dell Inspirion 1420 and found this feature - in Gnome after clicking the user in the upper right corner, System Settings --> Background (all of which is probably redundant as you have probably done this) - then, with seemingly the same issue you have where there are no buttons, after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point is.
Hope this helps,
Richard
"after days I found that clicking the image is where the access point is" I'm thinking you mean the actual picture you want to be set as your background? Yeah, I'm clicking on that and I still get no settings that will allow me to set whether the background is Tiled.....Centered.......Fills the screen...Scales to size etc. I wonder if there's a configuration file that can be altered?....and Thanks for the reply!!
EGO II
I'm not sure which desktop you are using (Gnome, KDE, etc) but I am using KDE and have the desktop configured to folder view in F18 and if you right click on the background then select "Folder View Properties" from the subsequent dialog, the next dialog displayed defaults to the view setting where there is a "positioning" drop down which has all the options selectable that you are looking for.
regards, Steve
I'm still using the Gnome desktop, (I happen to find it very appealing...although a lot of folks don't!) And I've just tried Richard's solution, which I THOUGHT was working, apparently, it's not. But it's ok. I will continue to check the config files for gnome and see what I can find. thanks for your help!
EGO II
If you are using Gnome, I read in one of the Australian Magazines a while ago that the Gnome developers removed a lot of the configuration options from Gnome 3, and there there was a tool that could be downloaded that reintroduced a number of them that the magazine recommended as being the first download that should be done for Gnome 3. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the tool and I don't have the article anymore as I stopped using Gnome the first time I tried it when I found that I couldn't right click on the desktop and create application links.
regards, Steve
You might be referring to 'gnome-tweak-tool' .
I have downloaded and tried the gnome-tweak-tool...but even than I don't see an option to have this feature brought back, I guess I'll just migrate to the MATE version of Fedora 18...and hope they bring it back in version 19. Thanks to all for your help and input!!
EGO II
Il giorno dom, 17/03/2013 alle 00.09 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. ha scritto:
Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a response? Here's the original inquiry again:
I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was on its last legs, so I assisted them in installing F18, but the feature for handling the desktop background is gone...(missing? kidnapped?) Can anyone help with what needs to be done in order to get it back?
Thanks To All
$ sudo yum install cinnamon-settings
Then run cinnamon-settings, there are a few settings that have been removed from gnome 3
hope this help
Il giorno lun, 25/03/2013 alle 22.50 +0100, Dario Lesca ha scritto:
Il giorno dom, 17/03/2013 alle 00.09 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. ha scritto:
Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a response? Here's the original inquiry again:
I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was on its last legs, so I assisted them in installing F18, but the feature for handling the desktop background is gone...(missing? kidnapped?) Can anyone help with what needs to be done in order to get it back?
Thanks To All
$ sudo yum install cinnamon-settings
Then run cinnamon-settings, there are a few settings that have been removed from gnome 3
hope this help
NOTE: this solution is for a Gnome 3 Desktop Environment, it is not necessary switch to cinnamon.
On 03/25/2013 05:54 PM, Dario Lesca wrote:
Il giorno lun, 25/03/2013 alle 22.50 +0100, Dario Lesca ha scritto:
Il giorno dom, 17/03/2013 alle 00.09 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. ha scritto:
Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a response? Here's the original inquiry again:
I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was on its last legs, so I assisted them in installing F18, but the feature for handling the desktop background is gone...(missing? kidnapped?) Can anyone help with what needs to be done in order to get it back?
Thanks To All
$ sudo yum install cinnamon-settings
Then run cinnamon-settings, there are a few settings that have been removed from gnome 3
hope this help
NOTE: this solution is for a Gnome 3 Desktop Environment, it is not necessary switch to cinnamon.
Thanks for the tip Dario, but still no go....I followed your instructions and ran it just as you typed it, but I still get nothing. But it's ok...I will just make the switch to MATE or else figure out how to develop and write my own code for an extension I can use! Thanks for all your help!
EGO II
On 03/26/2013 06:38 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 03/25/2013 05:54 PM, Dario Lesca wrote:
Il giorno lun, 25/03/2013 alle 22.50 +0100, Dario Lesca ha scritto:
Il giorno dom, 17/03/2013 alle 00.09 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. ha scritto:
Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a response? Here's the original inquiry again:
I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was on its last legs, so I assisted them in installing F18, but the feature for handling the desktop background is gone...(missing? kidnapped?) Can anyone help with what needs to be done in order to get it back?
Thanks To All
$ sudo yum install cinnamon-settings
Then run cinnamon-settings, there are a few settings that have been removed from gnome 3
hope this help
NOTE: this solution is for a Gnome 3 Desktop Environment, it is not necessary switch to cinnamon.
Thanks for the tip Dario, but still no go....I followed your instructions and ran it just as you typed it, but I still get nothing. But it's ok...I will just make the switch to MATE or else figure out how to develop and write my own code for an extension I can use! Thanks for all your help!
EGO II
It is great that you are thinking of developing code, for what you are missing out on. Please do share it to the community as well. Thanks.
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