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      • IanI Offline
        Ian
        last edited by Ian

        If I add a photo from the gallery as a background image it is too big and runs off the edge of the screen. How can you define an image that fills the screen?

        I am using a Volla Phone X.

        I was trying to add an edited image from my desktop PC. I used gimp on Ubuntu 20.04 to add some text to an image captured on my old Nexus 5. The text I was adding was along the lines of 'This phone belonhs to XXXXX, if found please call LANDLINE NUMBER'.

        I set the image as wallpaper but it overflowed the screen. Scaling the image down to 720 x 960 pixels on the PC and trying again gave the same result.

        I just tried rescaling the image to 1080x2340 at 283 PPI to match the display on the phone. If I try to set it as wallpaper I get the default purple splash screen.

        What am I doing wrong?

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          Rondarius @Ian
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          @ian
          If I don't remember it wrong, you have to use a square image something like 3000x3000 or anything of your liking. The phone will handle the scaling by itself.

          4 Google Pixel 3A
          1 Google Nexus 6P
          2 Google Nexus 5
          2 Pinephones
          2 Sony Xperia X

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          • IanI Offline
            Ian
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            OK. So I'll have to make do with adding an image onto the phone and setting it as the background/wallpaper. This lets me see how much the image is cropped. I can then edit the image on my PC to add the text box whilst looking at the image on my phone's background to GUESS a position that will not get cropped. I can then export the image as a jpeg, send it to my phone and set as background.

            Not the best but it works.

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