background zoom should be centered

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I got around that the option *center* uses aswell the left top edge as center and not the actual center which it should.

Confirmed.

Centered should show the image at full size, centered, which implies that part of the image might end up outside the desktop area. This was how it worked until recently. Now, the image is indeed full-sized, but left-aligned.

Zoom also ends up left-aligned, even though it should simply zoom-in on the image enough to fill the screen, as it did until recently.

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upstream has some questions on the issue

"Not reproducible here (all 2.22.0).

Does it happen in the background, the background thumbnail, or both?

Is nautilus managing the background, or g-s-d?

Exact versions of nautilus, g-s-d, and gnome-desktop involved?"

could you reply to those?

I was using gnome 2.21.xx and I have current no PC to test it with 2.22.xx (just died)
It happens when right-clicking on the desktop and selecting *change desktop bg*. I only expirienced the bug there, but as allready pointed out, no way to check wether it is present anywhere else.

It happens with both:

The background itself is not centered, while the thumbnail is both
off-center and clipped.

I'm guessing that Nautilus is managing, since I usually right-click on
the desktop to change the background. However, I also tried changing
it via the control panel with the same result.

Versions are kept up to date with Hardy.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
> upstream has some questions on the issue
>
> "Not reproducible here (all 2.22.0).
>
> Does it happen in the background, the background thumbnail, or both?
>
> Is nautilus managing the background, or g-s-d?
>
> Exact versions of nautilus, g-s-d, and gnome-desktop involved?"
>
> could you reply to those?
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
> Status: Triaged => Incomplete
>
>
> --
> background zoom should be centered
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197357
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>

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Same problem, the image is not centered when i choose center. I only tested with image that the size is larger than my screen.

otherwise it does not make sense anyways

seems to be rather a gnome-desktop issue

I have this problem too.

Images larger than the screen are not centered with "centered" or "zoom". The top edges of images never go past the top edge of the screen, and the left edges of images never go past the left edge of the screen.

Confirmed here also, since Hardy. Looks like upstream released a patch.

there's a proposed fix it hasn't been acepted yet, thanks.

the bug has been fixed upstream now

the change will be backported to hardy

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here

I can verify this, assigning to me for this purpose.

Now it works correctly since my last update (2008-05-08).

center and zoom are now in the center :)

Thanks

Works here, too, marking as verified.

Here, it works for some images and not for others.

Have you restarted your gnome session after the update ? I got strange results on the background position before doing that.

Solution confirmed here also. Installing updates & killall nautilus triggered all that is needed.

Copied to hardy-updates.

copied to intrepid

OK, now how can I turn this off? I really liked the zoom when it took the picture and vertically alligned it to top but not to the center. It is more suitable if you wnat to have a portrait-like picture as a wallpaper.

Is there any way to change allignment of zoomed wallpapers?