For changing desktop background picture, I tried to do it in 2 ways--
1) Menu -- Desktop -- Desktop -- in desktopPreferences window, Browsed & changed the picture. Apply & OK.
But no change.
2) Menu -- Desktop -- JWM desk manager -- Background button -- chose an image -- "apply Wallpaper".
But no change.
Rebooted. No change.
Any idea on how to change it?
How to change desktop background picture?
What specific version of Puppy you using?
How is it installed?
Full or frugal?
If frugal, have you made a save and are booting using the save?
Installed on what device?
Does Windows also use this device?
You seem to be doing it correctly.
When in Wallpaper Chooser program.
You are choosing from the /usr/share/backgrounds directory?
If this is a fresh new install of Puppy.
There is a chance the install is not good.
Bad download of the Puppy iso.
Re-download the Puppy iso and do a fresh clean install.
How is it installed?
Full or frugal?
If frugal, have you made a save and are booting using the save?
Installed on what device?
Does Windows also use this device?
You seem to be doing it correctly.
When in Wallpaper Chooser program.
You are choosing from the /usr/share/backgrounds directory?
If this is a fresh new install of Puppy.
There is a chance the install is not good.
Bad download of the Puppy iso.
Re-download the Puppy iso and do a fresh clean install.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
xenialpup 64bitbigpup wrote:What specific version of Puppy you using?
frugal.How is it installed?
Full or frugal?
If frugal, have you made a save and are booting using the save?
Saved on HDD and booting using it.
Installed on separate /ext4 partition.Installed on what device?
Does Windows also use this device?
Windows can't use it.
Yes. I am choosing from /usr/share/backgrounds directory.You seem to be doing it correctly.
When in Wallpaper Chooser program.
You are choosing from the /usr/share/backgrounds directory?
If that's the last option, I would try that.If this is a fresh new install of Puppy.
There is a chance the install is not good.
Bad download of the Puppy iso.
Re-download the Puppy iso and do a fresh clean install.
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Mike Walsh
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@ d_vineet:-
Try this:-
Do a Google search (or DuckDuckGo, or whichever search provider you use)for 'desktop background wallpapers'. See what comes up; usually, there's a whole bunch of sites doing this stuff.
Find something you like the look of. More particularly, see if it's available in your specific screen resolution. Download it.
From your download location, copy the image across to /mnt/home. If placed here, it will always be found by the system at boot-time.
Open a ROX-Filer window on /mnt/home. Leave this open. Right-click on any one of the desktop icons, and click on 'Backdrop', down toward the bottom. A small window will open into which you can place any image.
Click & hold on the chosen image you've placed in /mnt/home, drag it across to the second small window (where it says 'Drop an image here...'), and do just that. Drop the image into that box. (Make sure 'Stretch' is selected at the top.)
Hey presto! Wallpaper changed. And this can be repeated as often as you want. Technically, you can place your chosen image into /usr/share/backgrounds, then select it via the Wallpaper Chooser (I've been doing this for years).....but, as bigpup says, it does sound as though something isn't quite right there. And the time to do a re-install really is early on, before you get too much other stuff installed, and set up.
(If this is the only thing not behaving itself, well.....you may not need to. There's always multiple ways of achieving the same out come.)
Anyway, hope that helps.
Mike.
Try this:-
Do a Google search (or DuckDuckGo, or whichever search provider you use)for 'desktop background wallpapers'. See what comes up; usually, there's a whole bunch of sites doing this stuff.
Find something you like the look of. More particularly, see if it's available in your specific screen resolution. Download it.
From your download location, copy the image across to /mnt/home. If placed here, it will always be found by the system at boot-time.
Open a ROX-Filer window on /mnt/home. Leave this open. Right-click on any one of the desktop icons, and click on 'Backdrop', down toward the bottom. A small window will open into which you can place any image.
Click & hold on the chosen image you've placed in /mnt/home, drag it across to the second small window (where it says 'Drop an image here...'), and do just that. Drop the image into that box. (Make sure 'Stretch' is selected at the top.)
Hey presto! Wallpaper changed. And this can be repeated as often as you want. Technically, you can place your chosen image into /usr/share/backgrounds, then select it via the Wallpaper Chooser (I've been doing this for years).....but, as bigpup says, it does sound as though something isn't quite right there. And the time to do a re-install really is early on, before you get too much other stuff installed, and set up.
(If this is the only thing not behaving itself, well.....you may not need to. There's always multiple ways of achieving the same out come.)
Anyway, hope that helps.
Mike.
