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Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Zoom option in lightweight wallpaper programs

In gnome when you pick a wallpaper, you can pick the zoom option and the wallpaper is set to the whole screen and all ratio's in the image are maintained (which is not the case with fill screen, and scale gives borders if the image hasn't got the right resolution).
Now what I was wondering, is there any way to get this behavior from feh, imagemagick, xsetbg or some other non-gnome wallpaper setting program?
I'd really like to know how to do so

syd

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From: Auckland, NZ

Registered: 2006-01-22

Posts: 156

Re: Zoom option in lightweight wallpaper programs

Try out nitrogen.

Its got a best fit option. Works well.

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: Zoom option in lightweight wallpaper programs

But that best fit option also gives borders, I'm on a 1024x1280 resolution and most wallpapers doesn't fit natively to this resolution. So with the gnome background handler I could select an option to magnify the image to fit the screen and loose a little piece of the image at the borders.
But all other apps I've tried until now only support the option to set the image to the biggest size which shows the whole image and show a colored border at the sides.
So I'm looking for an app with that same option as the gnome app (it's called zoom there).

I hope my explanation is a little clear.