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Software - Support => Other => Topic started by: PinStripe on January 08, 2017, 03:09:04 PM
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I am just curious as to Why the programmers haven't included an ADD button to the desktop settings
window to be able to add your own wallpaper. I see that they are kept in the XFCE folder, but I am
setting up new people on the OS who will not want to be searching for this folder.
Please add a button in the desktop settings window.
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I am sure someone more knowledge will provide a better answer but your request for an adding a button in settings window to add your own wallpaper is a problem for the XFCE developers not the Linux Lite developers.
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I am sure someone more knowledge will provide a better answer but your request for an adding a button in settings window to add your own wallpaper is a problem for the XFCE developers not the Linux Lite developers.
Correct.
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Ok thanks... I posted this to the XFCE forum.
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Errrr. I don't get this thread at all. I can add any folder I want from anywhere. And a button is already there.
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/52541/dcea55525403891.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/dcea55525403891) (http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/52541/fee769525403944.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/fee769525403944)
OK. I guess I figured out what you want. You want to download and add unsecure wallpapers from the net to a root folder and have a button for that purpose. It is just easier to make a wallpaper folder in ~/home/username/wallpaper and put your downloaded wallpaper in there. Then point the wallpaper changer to that folder.
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Wow dude... do you have an anger management problem?
NO MATTER WHAT I do... it does not allow me to select a pic file to use as a wallpaper and NO, I am not using
anything from the web, I was trying to add a photo that I already have in a folder. But you can see all png and
jpg files are grayed out and cannot be selected.
(http://i68.tinypic.com/1zno035.jpg)
Here's another example going into another folder:
You can see the folders are boldly visible, but the files within each folder are all grayed out.
(http://i64.tinypic.com/15cecg2.jpg)
I am used to KDE and would rather use it because of it's capabilities, but I have no choice if I want to use this distro.
The distro is very good and therefore I put up with XFCE.
Last, your latter suggestion does not work. I select the home/user folder and it does not display the Wallpaper folder
that I previously created.
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Wow dude... do you have an anger management problem?
Please be mindful of your tone. Statements like this can separate you from the help you're soliciting. The irony here is rokytnji is correct. Perhaps not in you getting images online. But the rest is correct.
If you right click on your desktop, and select "Desktop Settings...," you'll see under the Background tab an area marked "Folder:". From there, select "Other..." and follow the path to your folder of images. Select only that folder and click "Open" in the bottom right of the window. You should return to the Desktop Settings window and see images under the Background tab, in the Wallpaper for Workspace X section.
Lastly, if you're reading this image you want from a folder on external storage media, the image will only be available while the external storage media is connected to your PC. It would be better to copy the file to a folder locally on your PC and follow what I listed in my paragraph above, which by the way is what rokytnji was also saying.
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No I don't have a anger management problem. But it seems you do. Posts like yours is why I don't come here much anymore. I was only here to check on a fix I posted. I figured I'd throw in a little more help while I was here. To help take off the load on Jerrys shoulders.
See ya. Happy trails, Rok.
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Wow...
Ok... I was simply trying to come to a reasonable conclusion to a (I thought would be) simple problem and I get the 3rd degree!
And I don't think this Torry dude even read my entire posts.
Maybe I will need to consider another distro.
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I have read your entire posts, and this was hardly the third degree. I tried to stop it, but apparently you've already turned off one forum member with over 1000 posts. You're coming close to turning off this member with over 900.
The answer to your concern really is in the responses. Instead of reading those entire posts for understanding, you seem more interested in adding sentiment that wasn't there.
In case you're still reading this, or in case someone with the same Linux Lite problem is, consider the following as well: https://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/customize.html#desktop.
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The most simple way I can think of is going to /usr/share/backgrounds > right click on xfce > open as admin > /usr/share/backgrounds/xfce will than open in a root file manager. now you can put all you wallpapers in there.
When you open the wallpaper chooser again all your wallpapers should be there.
at least that's how I do it.
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Chuckle. My goodness. Obviously the questioner is not much of distro drifter. The function he seems to be referring to already exists in LXLE, a fine distro in some respects, but not nearly as user friendly as LL in other important respects. Every desktop function has a learning curve for new users, but in all honesty I know of no distro more user friendly than this one, a reputation for friendliness that continues to grow. Hope our forums continue along that path, and do not slip into the philosophical based psychological wackiness of the Deb forum. We are promoting something really terrific here.
TC
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Closing thread.