[Novalug] Wallpaper upside down

Ken Kauffman kkauffman@headfog.com
Mon Nov 10 11:03:41 EST 2008


You need a 64 bit image.
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LOL... I crack me up.

Seriously... have you tried putting additional images from the phone to see
if they exhibit the same behavior.

K

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:13, Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell@qis.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Bud Roth wrote:
>
> BR >I've got Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop running Gnome on an Intel 64 processor.
> BR >
> BR >When I select a picture uploaded from my iPhone to be my background,
> the
> BR >thumbnail is upside up, but when Gnome puts up the picture as
> wallpaper,
> BR >it is upside down.
> BR >
> BR >I flipped the picture using GIMP and saved it with 0% image quality
> BR >loss.  This fixed the upside down problem, but despite the 100% same
> BR >quality saving option, the quality was noticeably poorer.  I've googled
> BR >this problem, but no fix.
>
> How many pixels wide and high is the picture?
>
> If you open it with Image VIewer - the default Ubuntu image display
> application the pixel dimensions are displayed in the lower left side of
> the applicaiton.
>
> You cannot improve picture quality on a low resolution picture by
> enlarging it to fill the screen. So if the pixel dimensions are less
> that the size of your screen then the image will appear pixelated.
>
> BR >
> BR >Frankly, I'm stumped...Any ideas?
> BR >
> BR >Bud
> BR >
>
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