I am using e/OS on a Fairphone 6, and the wallpaper is not somehow not working properly. The issues I can see:
When switching between the screens (desktops, views - not sure what they are called, but I mean moving left and right), the wallpaper in the lower area (with the favorites) moves at a different speed than the top part of the image.
In most or all views, the top and bottom area are actually misaligned.
On one FP6 (yes, there are several ), the bottom area often crashes and then looks completely off. Imagine something a group shot of people with feet missing for most of them, and then one person with giant feet from another person in the photo or things like that.
Am I the only one experiencing such behavior? Is there something I can do about it?
When the term âmissing feetâ occurs itâs always a sign that the used wallpaper images do not match the screen size. I suggest strictly to use exact screen size images, I have a separate folder for this, this reduces all these problems with stretching or shrinking or cropping images a lot. When thereâs no question (how to display an image) the device can also not give a wrong answer.
Thank you! The wallpaper is already the correct aspect ratio. Afaik, the default gallery does not allow scaling the image to a certain height/width in pixels (let alone the aspect ratio). I will give it a try via the computer, but seems kind of annoying if this to be done for every potential wallpaper.
As said by @irrlicht an exact size image is expected to display correctly. If your image has several feet it sounds like landscape image [1]. In this case Android is expected to display it across multiple screens. (It seems to vary by device whether some advanced image editor is included in the wallpaper setting page seen previously in a Samsung A3.) The blur effect in dock would take care of wandering feet but seems now / again missing on some devices.
[1] Edit but you say the ratio is correct, implies further distortion is introduced perhaps caused by âextra widthâ of your image is used for horizontal scrolling.
Maybe an opportunity to play with your image on a PC image editor to add a more neutral foreground below the feet (??).
Use a computer. This is the most comfortable way since a mobile with itâs small screen and only the finger for pointing isnât a proper tool for image manipulation at all.
Using GIMP or whatever you can also adjust brightness and contrast or reduce colors up to making a designated background image just black and white (this is not at all a bad idea when you have colored app icons on this background). Keep in mind that the mobile has more extreme conditions than a PC screen including total darkness and direct sunlight and everything between. In some cases I made the same image have three versions (brightness, contrast) and copied them all to the mobile to be able to select the best one there.
Currently I have a library of about 15 backgrounds changed randomly day by day using Slideshow Wallpaper (from F-Droid). All in exact size. And I use always the same image for all screens.
Edit: I noticed that as soon as I have 3 pages/spaces, the third page background and dock have aligned images, the first and second donât. If I add a fourth space, the fourth space is aligned and all prior ones are off.
), the bottom area often crashes and then looks completely off. Imagine something a group shot of people with feet missing for most of them, and then one person with giant feet from another person in the photo or things like that.
