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

[Richard Vickery]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. <eoconnor25 at 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 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
>>
>
>
>  Thanks SO much Richard!Q I think this helped!
>
>
> EGO II
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Glad I could help out!
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