Scaling

["Germán A. Racca"]

On 02/25/2013 03:05 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
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>
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> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:19 AM, "Germán A. Racca"
> <german.racca at gmail.com <mailto:german.racca at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 02/25/2013 11:44 AM, Richard Vickery wrote:
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>         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:
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>     $ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.background picture-options
>
>     and this command to change the rendering option:
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>     $ 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.
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>     For example, to set a wallpaper with zoom option:
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>     $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-options zoom
>
>     HTH,
>     Germán.
>
>         On Feb 24, 2013 7:40 PM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr."
>         <eoconnor25 at gmail.com <mailto:eoconnor25 at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:eoconnor25 at gmail.com <mailto:eoconnor25 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
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>              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:
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>                      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
>
>
>     --
>     Germán A. Racca
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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.

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Germán A. Racca
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