How to disable icon stretch in Gnome Desktop?

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Wed Nov 21 17:01:25 UTC 2007


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On 20-Nov-07, at 10:30 AM, Jim Kronebusch wrote:

> I have locked the background picture for all our users with gconf- 
> editor.  Now they have
> figured out they can download pictures then use the stretch feature  
> to cover the desktop
> with whatever they want.  This wastes time, and can look pretty  
> poor if anyone tours our
> labs (who knows what the students will have for photos).  I have  
> been looking for a way
> to globally force all desktop icons to the default, but have had no  
> luck.  Google just
> tells me that the feature is there to stretch icons....I know that  
> already :-)  And I've
> looked at most every setting in gconf-editor and cannot find it.

And then they'll open those pictures full screen in one of a dozen  
photo edit programs and call that the background.
I think you're fighting a losing battle here...  You might get more  
progress if you working on the human side of the problem.

Brian
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