I switched to a different wallpaper briefly and now cannot find where in the file system the stock ones are to switch back to default Sparky one... I remember that it was made by liquidsky according to file name but can't find it through search (at least with my limited knowledge of how to search)
Thanks
Drew
edit: nevermind-- I realized I was capitalizing the "L" in liquidsky when I searched - newbie mistake.
/opt/wallpapers
If you want to copy wallpapers from your storage to this folder then open a file manager with no permissions and copy into the above folder...
And, when you copy from your folder to /opt/wallpapers it wouldn't get copied...
Image folder with normal permissions and open /opt/wallpapers with sudo pcmanfm and goto /opt/wallpapers and then copy from normal window to sudo - root window.
If you copy from root window to normal window these files wouldn't open.
Thanks way12go - I appreciate the response.
I found the folder when I realized my search error. I forget to be case sensitive often.
-->Am I correct in assuming that the wallpaper chooser will just look where ever the current wallpaper is stored? I DLed one into downloads and after that the preferences GUI opened that folder. That was my mistake it seems, I should have saved it in the opt/wallpapers folder. That would be easier then moving after the fact.
-->Not quite sure what you are saying about how to copy though. You mean normal cp in a root terminal would not work to move my downloaded wallpapers into opt/wallpapers? I guess I don't get what you mean by "image" the folder. My newbie is showing badly here.
-->Another question that came up while picking an image - I used the view options to Zoom in on the thumbs in the wallpaper folder and it also zooms my few desktop icons... and leaves them zoomed can I stop that?
Drew
Open normal file manager like
pcmanfm or thunar
Open terminal and
sudo pcmanfm
or
sudo thunar
and copy from non root folder to root folder /opt/wallpapers
And if like some pictures in wallpaper folder and you want to copy them to non root folder they wouldn't work because of permissions to the file.
Zoom option: I didn't try zoom before. But, if I open an image in web browser and zoom it sometimes in some webbrowser or some linux the other images are also zoomed and if I press ctrl+0 then all images come to original size
So how about zoom when you want and revert to default settings when you don't want?
I always install, if it isn't already installed,
nitrogen to control wallpaper. You can configure it (nitrogen>preferences) to get wallpaper from any directory, and even use it to put different wallpapers on multiple monitor set-ups:
http://lxlinux.com/nitrogen.png For more information, see
http://lxlinux.com/#5 .