Frequently asked questions about wallpaper

1. The same size as your screen of course, if a picture of the same size as your screen is available.
2. If it is not, then choose the next larger one and resize it (reduce it) with an image editor (e.g. The Gimp).
3. You could also choose the next smaller one and enlarge it, but the quality would be inferior.

1. Click on a link below one of the thumbnails, the small images, that are displayed on every gallery page.
2. When the large wallpaper is displayed, click with the right mouse button on the wallpaper image and select 'save image...' or 'save image as...'

To set-up a picture as your desktop background, with some browsers, you just need to click on the image with the right mouse button and select or . This doesn't always work well, so here are the detailed methods.

Linux Ubuntu with Gnome, or any other Linux with Gnome

Once you did save your elected picture on your hard-disk,
- Go to the menu
- Go to the tab and click the button
- A file dialog opens. Choose the path and the file name of the wallpaper image you did save previously

Linux Kubuntu with KDE, or any other Linux with KDE

Once you did save your elected picture on your hard-disk,
- Go to the
- Go to
- Select and click on the button
- A file dialog opens. Choose the path and the file name of the wallpaper image you did save previously

Mac OS 8.5 or 9

Once you did save your elected wallpaper picture on your hard-disk,
- Go to the and select the .
- Select .
- Click on the tab.
- Click on the button to remove your old wallpaper if you already had one.
- Click on the button.
- Choose the folder and the filename of the wallpaper image you did save previously.
- Click on the button and close the window.

Mac OS X

- Go to the and select .
- Click on .
- Click on the button
- Go to the folder of the wallpaper image you did save previously
- Drag the image into the screen.

Windows9x (95, 98 and ME)

Once you did save your elected wallpaper picture on your hard-disk,
- Go through the and double click on
- A dialog box opens. Near the top, click on the tab
- In the lower half, where it is written Wallpaper, click on the button on the right.
- A file dialog opens. Choose the folder and the file name of the wallpaper image you did save previously. Click .
- Back in the display dialog box, select the display mode among .
- Click and .

Remark: Under Win9x, you can use jpg or gif images as a desktop wallpaper if Active Desktop is installed. If you do not want to install Active Desktop, you can only use bmp images as wallpapers. Thus you should convert your jpg images to bmp images. Therefore, open the jpg image with an image editor (e.g. The Gimp) and save it as a bmp file.

Windows XP or Vista

Once you did save your elected wallpaper picture on your hard-disk,
- Go through the , then .
- Select from the list.
- Click to search for the wallpaper image you did save previously.
- A file dialog opens. Choose the folder and the file name of the wallpaper image you did save previously.
- Click or Double-click the image file to add it to the list of available wallpapers.
- Use the option to center the wallpaper or to stretch the wallpaper all over the screen.
- Click to confirm the settings.

To remove a picture from your desktop background:

Linux Ubuntu with Gnome, or any other Linux with Gnome

- Go to the menu .
- Go to the tab and click on the first "thumbnail" at the top left which is a dummy thumbnail for a solid color instead of a wallpaper image.

Linux Kubuntu with KDE, or any other Linux with KDE

- Go to then .
- Select .
- Click on the button .

Mac OS 8.5 or 9

- Go to the and select the .
- Select .
- Click on the tab.
- Click on the button to remove your wallpaper.
- Click on the button and close the dialog box.

Windows9x

This is the method for the Win9x family (that are 95, 98 and ME).
- Right click on a empty area of your desktop and click .
- Alternatively go through the and double click on
- A dialog box opens. Near the top, click on the tab .
- In the lower half, where it is written Wallpaper, scroll to the top of the list and select (None).
- Back in the display dialog box, click and .

Windows XP or Vista

- Right click on a empty area of your desktop and click .
- Alternatively go through the , then .
- Select from the list.
- Choose a colour instead of an image or choose , if the choice (None) still exists.
- Click to confirm the settings.

To resize a picture you need a photo editor or an image editor. When you resize or resample a picture, you can choose the new width and the new height of the resized picture in pixels or in per cent, but pixels are more adequate in this case here.

To avoid distortion, most graphical software tools allow you to check a box named "preserve aspect ratio" or something similar. When you check this box, you choose only the new width and the corresponding height will be calculated automatically, or vice-versa.

At the digital photo software guide you will find a page dealing with photo resizing and jpeg resizing .

With most graphical software tools the resize function is under the menu ,  sub-menu .

Not always, since many web browsers are rescaling images behind your back and do not show the images at one to one scale as they should. They may do this for various reasons. We have a test image and more details at the page image scaling .

Probably yes, but we can not guarantee it. Look, we do regularly test the website with many different web browsers, up to 8 browsers and the pages come up well with all of them. If some page do not show up well with MSIE, it would just prove once more that it is NOT a compliant browser, or like some people say, it is not a software with bugs, but it is a huge bug.

Unfortunately, we know that most of our visitors are using this bad browser, but we are not equiped to test our pages with it and we do not intend to equip ourself in the future. We would like to incite you to install at least a second browser, a compliant one, and maybe it will become your main browser one day. We do NOT want to impose you one specific browser, there is a large choice of compliant browsers.

E.g. Epiphany, Firefox, Galeon, Google Chrome, Kazehakase, Konqueror, Opera, Seamonkey

Yes, faunaflorawallpaper.com has been tested with the current Chrome development version 4.0.211.2 under Linux and all pages did render well. Even this development version is not yet a beta version, we do not expect that future beta versions and finally stable versions could have any problem with our web pages.