On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:19 AM, "Germán A. Racca" <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 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." <eoconno...@gmail.com >> <mailto:eoconno...@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 >> > > -- > Germán A. Racca > Fedora Package Maintainer > https://fedoraproject.org/**wiki/User:Skytux<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Skytux> > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.**org/mailman/listinfo/users<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users> > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/**Mailing_list_guidelines<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines> > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > Thanks very much German! (Please forgive my lack of the accent; I lack the expertise of how to add this)
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