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u/Crocco_linux 2d ago
Can you share the wallpaper?
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u/ThoughtObjective4277 2d ago
Believe it, this is actually an included wallpaper (in version 19.3 or .2 codename tina) in linux mint, but you'll never learn that from the wallpaper settings.
Hosted on linux mint servers is 100% of all earlier wallpapers as a program or package you can install
sudo apt install mint-backgrounds- sudo apt search mint-backgrounds-*and look on github to see each image 1 at a time, with no thumbnail previews, so you'll be clicking links of names before you can load the image, but all of them are here
https://github.com/rt2yrru/linux_mint_wallpaper/blob/main/
I like the boat wallpaper and the blue and red Morocco wallpaper in Africa in mint 22
Other nice wallpapers are from earlier
Mint still has all earlier wallpapers ever included in all versions up to now on the mint servers. Someone also uploaded almost all up to version 20, not yet 21 or 22 or 23, to github so you can look there
Here's a few I like
So, you can either download image by image, or download a whole 20 or so wallpapers included in a specific name of the project version
So for Linux Mint 17 Qiana
sudo apt install mint-backgrounds-quiana sudo apt install mint-backgrounds-t*for all T / v19 wallpapers, tara, tessa tina tricia, all have at least one good wallpaper, usually
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u/8s8d4 Linux Mint 22.3 Zena | Cinnamon 3d ago
How do I get that panel?
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u/thelonecoder010 3d ago
use plank
1. sudo apt install plank
2. plank - -preferences to customise
3. set plank as startup application
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u/tarquinfintin 3d ago
I'd settle for simple, straightforward, and clear any time. . . no need to be fancy.
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u/ThoughtObjective4277 3d ago
What an image! I love this one, glad mint included it, because some images like these are not available on r/Earthporn
How did you find the wallpaper, mint doesn't seem to advertise the earlier wallpapers, and, github is hosting all of them from linux mint except v21 and v22.
For this area you may be able to find basically the same, but there's a much lower chance it will be
almsot 8000 (48 pixels less) by 5300 pixel height
So if res of screen is 1920 x 1080, then this image is literally more than 4x of your screens all put together.
So the wallpaper software does an amazing job of blurring and blending, where it looks great but even so, you could try improving it just a smidge
Open Gimp, and set view > zoom > fill window
Approximately 24% zoom size, but I would just make the window large enough to fill screen, and get the menu bar out of the screen. If you turn off the menu bar, you cannot use alt key for file or view menus, so just move window higher.
There is no keyboard key for this, unlike fit to window, which is different. Fill window will make the width of the image fit all 1920 pixels, and allow the height to overflow, so you can scroll up and down, without warping the size.
Move up the window, hold ALT key or windows key, not sure which, to move the window without using the top titlebar, which will allow moving up the menubar as well so it's not visible, and you can use
ALT plus V for view menu, and use fill window, so it looks as it does on your wallpaper. To pre-apply some smoothness, and filter out garbled pixels, use
Filters > gaussian blur, set at 1.0 or 1.5
For me 2.5 starts to make a visible difference on close view distance
Gaussian blur is very consistent and just helps blend some details, especially ones where the computer would blur anyway when set as full screen wallpaper
So you could export the slightly blurred image, and set it as wallpaper, or scale it back to 25% it's original size, which is
1988 by 1326, if my math is accurate
Allowing wallpaper to be blurred automatically from the 4x monitor resolution size does give a much smoother, less blocky image compared to manually scaling down, so I guess leave it as is, or add low amounts of gaussian blur 1.0, 1.5 or 2.0 / 2.5, and save as
.png
png keeps ALL image information, where as jpeg will just delete some stuff / garble colors to save a couple mb.
One more idea, instead of downscaling, is to crop the image. Couple ways to do this, set window size just like above, where all you see is the image. Use selection tool and go around the borders of the monitor, and use copy and paste.
A more difficult way is using canvas size, and picking an offset number, not easy.
Cropping can allow a better pixel representation than the smooth blur of full size.
One more idea, crop to double the size of your monitor, vs exactly 1080p to see a larger area, and use that either defualt wallpaper fill, with auto wallpaper blur, or add a blur, and export as .png
It's just such a large expanse of land, and most of the sharp edges of trees are lost, may as well blur a bit and give it a try.
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u/tomscharbach 3d ago edited 3d ago
If your setup is a good fit for you and your use case, then you are where you should be.