Image is zoomed when using "Set wallpaper" action.

[Arnaud Delcroix]

Hi,

I've seen this problem mentioned already in other threads, but there's no answer or workarounds.

When using the "Set wallpaper" action my image is zoomed in.
When setting a wallpaper manually, the image is correctly displayed.

There's no cropping needed as I already resized the images to match my screen resolution (720*1280 on Galaxy Note2 - stock ROM)

Here's an example of what I mean:

Wallpaper when set by Tasker:
http://i.imgur.com/FIRqDyl.png

Wallpaper set manually:
http://i.imgur.com/3zpD3eS.jpg

I looked into Tasker logs, but there's nothing specific that could explain the issue.
I also found no other options to set the wallpaper automatically (no plugins, no shell commands,...); that could serve as a valid workaround.


Thx for any help.

[Brandon Horwath]

I can see one is being reformatted into a portable network graphic.

... I imagine that there is some re-sizing going on when that happens.

[Miakoda Combies]

I just discovered a work around!

Make your wallpapers square! I'll use mine as an example. I was using Tasker to set different wallpapers depending on orientation, and then expanded that to be random wallpapers for each orientation. I have a folder of landscape wallpapers, and a folder of portrait wallpapers. 1920x1200, and 1200x1920. So, I used Gimp to change the canvass size to 1920x1920 (For yours, you will probably want 1280x1280), clicked the center button to ensure the part I want is right in the middle, make sure to use resize all layers. Then I just filled the whitespace with a color from the back ground of the wallpaper. In Tasker, Crop off, Scale off (although you should be able to scale if need be).

Now, it still zooms, BUT, it's zooming in to what I WANTED as my background!