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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: MaSonZ on July 07, 2012, 12:55:52 PM
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Anyone ever hear of it? Anyone have expierence with it? I have used it before...but it caused me headaches and aggrivation with the machine. The only reason I had it installed was for seperate desktop backgrounds on each monitor. Anyone know of a way to do this without installing software or know of safe reliable software to use?
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Anyone ever hear of it? Anyone have expierence with it? I have used it before...but it caused me headaches and aggrivation with the machine. The only reason I had it installed was for seperate desktop backgrounds on each monitor. Anyone know of a way to do this without installing software or know of safe reliable software to use?
Use extended desktop and then create a large desktop background from 3 different images attached together. If you make the image resolutions right you'll get a 'separate' background with no software required.
Or then you could use OSX.
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Do I need Photoshop or can I use Paint?
and OSX...I google it and it pops up with only Mac OS, which I knew it was, but is there a windows program with OSX in it?
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Do I need Photoshop or can I use Paint?
and OSX...I google it and it pops up with only Mac OS, which I knew it was, but is there a windows program with OSX in it?
No, you need a Mac to run OSX (at least legally that is) :)
You don't need photoshop, even MS paint will do - or the slightly better version paint.net or Gimp which are free. Gimp is essentially almost 100% replacement for photoshop for free.
If you have two monitors, say, 1680x1050 - all you need to do is to create a canvas of 3360x1050 and paste two 1680x1050 images of your flavor on it side by side.
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thank you much Ripley
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right click>Personalize>Desktop Background>Browse......
and it isnt showing up. I saved it in Gimp to my pictures, tried public pictures, desktop, nothing. Closed Gimp, still nothing.... thoughts?
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What extension did you save it as.
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What extension did you save it as.
Same thoughts here. If you saved it in 'gimp image format' it won't show in windows. You have to choose jpg, png or bmp format when saving the image if you want it to show as desktop background.
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got it saved to .jpg, pulled it up for my desktop...and with the 3840X2160 (1920X1080 doubled) it's duplicated on both screens like I wanted.... but both images are on one screen. The Image size in GIMP was 3840X2160 and I halved the screen with the images, in theory the desktop should be split with one image on each screen, correct?
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got it saved to .jpg, pulled it up for my desktop...and with the 3840X2160 (1920X1080 doubled) it's duplicated on both screens like I wanted.... but both images are on one screen. The Image size in GIMP was 3840X2160 and I halved the screen with the images, in theory the desktop should be split with one image on each screen, correct?
You have to change your desktop background setting from 'fill' to 'tile' whatever it's called in windows. Also, you need to have an extended desktop on which will create 1 large desktop instead of dual screens.
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couple tweaks to size and position and I've got it. thanks!
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couple tweaks to size and position and I've got it. thanks!
Cool, you're welcome.