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coz
September 4th, 2007, 03:11 AM
Hello,
I put together a couple of wallpapers with a penguin on it...ooo a linux wallpaper with a penguin, how original!__ :)
Well...maybe not original but I use these on occasion because they can be relaxing with all the eye candy being splattered about :)
These are two different images and both come in two resolutions 2304x1024 for dual monitors and 1280x1024 for single monitors.
The idea here is to use one of the wallpaper images and set the desktop background color to a light blue green or whatever you fancy. I designed them to be used with a light blue or blue green to simulate ice and snow.The entire image, except for the penguins, is completely transparent, so you can be imaginative if you like.
These were simply taken from penguin images found on the internet.
coz

coz
September 4th, 2007, 09:51 PM
Sorry about this but I put a transparent background onto the one penguin.

delfick
September 5th, 2007, 11:02 AM
EDIT : Threads merged

I'm slightly confused, what you sorry about?

and wouldn't it have been better to put this in your other thread for penguin screenshots http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=3907 ?

(i can merge this thread with that one if you want (I think i should))....
*waits for reason not to merge with other thread*

coz
September 5th, 2007, 01:20 PM
sure feel free to merge i didnt know how to do it so go ahead :)

delfick
September 5th, 2007, 02:51 PM
sure feel free to merge

done :D

i didnt know how to do it so go ahead :)

only mods can.... :)

Oh yeah, i'm loving the penguins :p

coz
September 6th, 2007, 02:31 AM
thanks guy

durand
October 16th, 2007, 04:53 PM
Thats a cool idea...I have a script that changes my wallpaper everytime i login..so this should work quite nicely. When you said transparent, I imagined the cube face being transparent in those places but anyway....never seen this idea before! Thanks!

EDIT: Tried them. They work suprisingly well on a black background...anyway, I noticed an artifact on one bit of the last two wallpapers. Circled it here. Changed the background to black cos its really obvious.

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/2380/penguinupdated1280x1024jv6.th.png (http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=penguinupdated1280x1024jv6.png)

coz
October 16th, 2007, 09:27 PM
hey durand,
Thanks for finding that I have attached edited version of the images. Let me know if these are better.

coz