Changing Gnome desktop background "Style"

[Jonathan Berry]

On 2/3/06, Jonathan Berry <berryja at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> It seems that attempting to change the Gnome desktop background style
> (Fill Screen, Centered, Scaled, Zoom, or Tiled) does not change
> anything unless you also change the picture.  The menu item changes
> and remembers its settings, but it does not change the background.  If
> you select another picture, select OK, then bring it back up and make
> change the settings for the original picture, it will work.  Anyone
> else seeing this?

I no longer see this problem.  Changing the style now changes the
background.  Also, changes happen immediately as with FC4, rather than
requiring the Desktop Background Properties box to be closed.

> PS: Any chance of getting a widescreen aspect ratio (16:9 and/or
> 16:10) of the new spiffy default Fedora background?

No comments? :-)

Jonathan