Background seems to be wrongly detecting screen size

[Tom Haddon]

I have a script that sets my background to a photo with a certain tag from my F-Spot collection. However, with unity it seems to set/detect the screen size incorrectly, thinking that the desktop is a lot bigger than it actually is and only showing the top left portion.

[ErM (ermster)]

I too am seeing this issue. Tried to adjust background style setting in "Apperance" to stretch, center, and scale but there was no change.

[Matheus Pacheco de Andrade (matheusp-andrade-deactivatedaccount)]

Trying to be helpful: what is the output when you type xrandr in your terminal?

[ErM (ermster)]

:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 600, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS1 connected 1024x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 220mm x 129mm
   1024x600 60.0*+ 65.0
   800x600 60.3
   640x480 59.9

This is an Asus eeePC 1001p , that maximum size looks a little too large. I'm currently at maximum resolution 1024x600.

[toor58 (uharrieman)]

I have this bug as well. Screen resolution is to large for stock Ubuntu wallpapers. I also tried resizing in 'Appearance's'. did not work. Using Desktop Drapes, same issue.

When i use a Bing background image it shows a double picture, with the top one slightly smaller than the background image. Picture attached.

Also using Asus 1005HAB eee pc.

[cariboo (cariboo)]

I have the same problem with my Compaq Mini 110. also 1024X600 resolution.

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

Seems like the background rendering is ignoring image options and is also wrongly sized. Ideally we should only be showing the background painted by gnome-settings-daemon and not drawing one of our own...

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

Don't hide desktop window(s) for window-picker mode, and therefore remove the use of Unity::Background from the mutter target

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 0.2.10-0ubuntu1

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unity (0.2.10-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Panels don't reappear after leaving fullscreen (LP: #578956)
    - Background seems to be wrongly detecting screen size (LP: #578686)
    - Unity panels don't disapear when VLC is on full side mode (LP: #583053)
    - Clicking on launcher does not raise the last used window of the
      application (LP: #592583)
  * debian/netbook-launcher.preinst, debian/unity.preinst:
    - add debhelper token
  * debian/patches/01_draw_background_with_nautilus_off.patch:
    - draw background when nautilus don't draw desktop
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:35:26 +0200