Scaling

[Richard Vickery]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:12 AM, "Germán A. Racca"
<german.racca at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 02/25/2013 03:05 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:19 AM, "Germán A. Racca"
>> <german.racca at gmail.com <mailto:german.racca at gmail.com**>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 02/25/2013 11:44 AM, Richard Vickery wrote:
>>
>>         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:
>>
>>     $ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.background picture-options
>>
>>     and this command to change the rendering option:
>>
>>     $ 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.
>>
>>     For example, to set a wallpaper with zoom option:
>>
>>     $ 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:
>>
>>              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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>> 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.
>
>
How about background- colour options with my picture; it only gives a black
background, where before I chose blue. This option, however, is not as
important.
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