How To Adjust Image Options When Setting Desktop Background...

Richard Vickery richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com
Sun Mar 17 18:51:26 UTC 2013


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 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Mar 17, 2013 10:00 AM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25 at 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 at 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
>
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