Set Desktop Background as Centered

C

Cottonwoodian

Under Personalize/Desktop background I chose a .jpg and I want it centered
with black background. No matter if I choose fit to screen, tiled or
centered it stays fit to screen even though the other choice is selected.
How do I correct this?
 
T

Tom Allen

Cottonwoodian said:
Under Personalize/Desktop background I chose a .jpg and I want it
centered
with black background. No matter if I choose fit to screen, tiled or
centered it stays fit to screen even though the other choice is
selected.
How do I correct this?
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Try an image which is smaller than your screen size ?

Tom
 
G

Gene E. Bloch

Under Personalize/Desktop background I chose a .jpg and I want it centered
with black background. No matter if I choose fit to screen, tiled or
centered it stays fit to screen even though the other choice is selected.
How do I correct this?
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My first thought is that the picture is as big as or bigger than the
screen, so that all three of those options look the same.

I have no second thought, though :)
 
C

Cottonwoodian

No, I tried that by reducing the image to 5" wide, did not help on my 17"
screen. Still stretches to fill screen even if I chose tiled or centered.
Strangly it showed correctly on my wife's new laptop until I transferred
files from her old laptop to her new one and now she has the same problem as
I.
 
C

Cottonwoodian

Same as above, thanks anyway.

Gene E. Bloch said:
My first thought is that the picture is as big as or bigger than the
screen, so that all three of those options look the same.

I have no second thought, though :)
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woody

N

Noel Paton

Same as above, thanks anyway.
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What is the size - in pixels - of the picture?? - it must be less than
the screen size.
a 5" picture can still be 6000pixels or moreon a side.
 
T

Tom Allen

Cottonwoodian said:
No, I tried that by reducing the image to 5" wide, did not help on my
17"
screen. Still stretches to fill screen even if I chose tiled or
centered.
Strangly it showed correctly on my wife's new laptop until I
transferred
files from her old laptop to her new one and now she has the same
problem as
I.
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As Noel Paton says it's the pixel count of image and screen that
matters.

Tom
 
R

RalfG

Cottonwoodian said:
No, I tried that by reducing the image to 5" wide, did not help on my 17"
screen. Still stretches to fill screen even if I chose tiled or centered.
Strangly it showed correctly on my wife's new laptop until I transferred
files from her old laptop to her new one and now she has the same problem
as
I.
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Did you try setting 'centered timings' for the monitor? If the setting is
available it should be somewhere in your advanced video driver settings. In
ATI's CCC you'd find it on Digital Panel -Attributes page in the Image
Scaling section. There might even be a similar setting on the flat panel
monitor itself.
 
G

Gene E. Bloch

What is the size - in pixels - of the picture?? - it must be less than
the screen size.
a 5" picture can still be 6000pixels or moreon a side.
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It never occurred to me that the OP wouldn't understand that. My bad.

So, thanks to you and to Tom Allen for pointing that out. I was about to,
but for a change I looked at other posts before getting redundant...
 
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Noel Paton

It never occurred to me that the OP wouldn't understand that. My bad.

So, thanks to you and to Tom Allen for pointing that out. I was about to,
but for a change I looked at other posts before getting redundant...
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<heh> don't tell anyone, but I made the same mistake as the OP a few
years ago!</heh>
 
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Gene E. Bloch

<heh> don't tell anyone, but I made the same mistake as the OP a few
years ago!</heh>
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OK, it's our secret. And clearly a valuable way to learn :)

I don't recall if I ever made that particular mistake, but you'd never
notice the difference among the many I /have/ made...
 

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