Re: Scaling

2013-02-25 Thread Edik Landaveri
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? If your screen is 1024x768 do: cd to dir_where_picture_is, then convert -resize 1024x768 desktop_pic.png desktop_pic.png move it to /usr/share/backgrounds if you want to but you don't need.

Re: Scaling

2013-02-25 Thread Germán A. Racca
On 02/25/2013 05:08 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:12 AM, "Germán A. Racca" mailto:german.ra...@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" mailto:german.ra...@gmail.com>

Re: Scaling

2013-02-25 Thread Richard Vickery
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:12 AM, "Germán A. Racca" wrote: > On 02/25/2013 03:05 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:19 AM, "Germán A. Racca" >> mailto:german.ra...@gmail.com**>> wrote: >> >> On 02/25/2013 11:44 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: >> >> I meant th

Re: Scaling

2013-02-25 Thread Germán A. Racca
On 02/25/2013 03:05 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:19 AM, "Germán A. Racca" mailto:german.ra...@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

Re: Scaling

2013-02-25 Thread Richard Vickery
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:19 AM, "Germán A. Racca" 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

Re: Scaling

2013-02-25 Thread Germán A. Racca
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 D

Re: Scaling

2013-02-25 Thread Richard Vickery
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. On Feb 24, 2013 7:40 PM, "Eddie

Re: Scaling

2013-02-24 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
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

Re: Scaling

2013-02-24 Thread Bill Oliver
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 do

Re: Scaling

2013-02-24 Thread Richard Vickery
There's got to be a way, and it's probably a very simple config file. On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > On 02/24/2013 09:04 PM, 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

Re: Scaling

2013-02-24 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 02/24/2013 09:04 PM, 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 I have been de