I think he's talking about the initial popup.  When he opens an image,
It shows 1:1 instead of a scaled down version like most everyone does. 
Mine shows a 50% scale.  I can't find where to set that default.

On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 23:42, Kevin Brown wrote:
> Michael Havens wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday 21 March 2004 04:07 pm, Kevin Brown wrote:
> > 
> >>Are you trying to use it as a background?  If so, either get the WM to
> >>stretch it to fill the screen or resize it in Gimp.
> > 
> > 
> > That is the way it is now; it fills the entire screen. I want to make it like 
> > 3x5 or something like that.
> 
> OK, well ..... inches and pixels are totally unrelated....  Only when printing 
> things out is there a conversion in any sense of the idea.  So, if you want it 
> to be 3" x 5", then you first need to figure out how dense you want the image 
> (otherwise known as pixels per inch) and mulitply the dimensions by that density 
> (e.g. 1200 ppi would be a 3600 x 6000 pixel image, whereas a 300 ppi would be 
> only 900 x 1500 pixel image).  If you want it to seem like a 3" x 5" image for 
> your desktop background, that is a different matter....
> 
> You need to rescale it based on your screen resolution (e.g. 3 x 5 like size at 
> 800 x 600 is different then 3 x 5 looking on 1280 x 1024).
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