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From: Sandra Milne <silne at optushome.com.au>
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> >nope. that's m$ for ya. but the best way to get a picture that looks good
> >is to get one that's viewable in 640x480 as it gets stretched on startup.
>
>
>Why not make it whatever screen resolution you are using and dont stretch it
>at all.

um, the startup screen is displayed as windows loads. so it has to be a 
certain width and height, and windows will only display the startup screen 
in 640x480 regardless of what your actual desktop resolution is. it also 
restricts the amount of colours to 256 which is quite a shame too.

To get this back to *nix related, does anyone know how to change the gnome 
1.4 splash screen? I'd love to put a custom one of those in. Make linux 
feel a bit more 'homey' :-) I'm also curious if anyone has run into the 
'disappearing desktop background' problem. I had an issue a few months back 
with gnome loading a black screen instead of the picture i'd asked it to. 
when i went to restore it, it was still set on the picture. the drive was 
mounted on startup so it had access to the file....just wondering if anyone 
else experienced that as well. i haven't been in gnome long enough lately 
to test if it still does it, although i suspect it has low bugfix priority.

Sandra.

silne at optushome.com.au
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