Default wallpaper; how to edit the text on it?

[Sepkio]

So, I would love to modify the green text "Mint" on the original image. I have found the background but not the text. Where is the location of the text?

[jtarin]

Post a screenshot of the wallpaper you are referring to.

[austin.texas]

I am no guru of GIMP, but it is likely that the text was made part of the graphic, as a layer.
https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-image-tex ... ement.html

[Sepkio]

Post a screenshot of the wallpaper you are referring to.

This would be the one.

[Sepkio]

I am no guru of GIMP, but it is likely that the text was made part of the graphic, as a layer.
https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-image-tex ... ement.html

I'm sure you are correct on this because I did find an image of the background only with no text. It's the text image I'm looking for.

[JosephM]

The wallpaper is a 3d rendering. It doesn't come in separate parts so I'm not sure you're going to find what you are looking for.

[Sepkio]

The wallpaper is a 3d rendering. It doesn't come in separate parts so I'm not sure you're going to find what you are looking for.

Ok. Thank you

[jtarin]

(Quick and dirty way without installing extra software) Fire up Libre Office Writer and investigate "Insert>Media>Fontwork Gallery. Play around with the controls and font type and you can get what you want.Export as a .png. Or you can overlay it onto a wallpaper you have made...say in the Gimp or edit the Writer results. You might have to install extra fonts to achieve what you want, but there are millions of free fonts available on the web.

https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Fon ... l_Text_Art

[Sepkio]

(Quick and dirty way without installing extra software) Fire up Libre Office Writer and investigate "Insert>Media>Fontwork Gallery. Play around with the controls and font type and you can get what you want.Export as a .png. Or you can overlay it onto a wallpaper you have made...say in the Gimp or edit the Writer results. You might have to install extra fonts to achieve what you want, but there are millions of free fonts available on the web.

https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Fon ... l_Text_Art

Thank you much, I will check it out this weekend.

[phd21]

Hi Sepkio,

I just read your post and the good replies to it. Here are my thoughts on this as well.

It would help to have more specific system setup information, see FYI below.

Also, what exactly are you trying to change, what do you want to do with the text? You can create your own "wallpaper" with your own image(s) and text, or choose another one for this. If you Google search images for "Linux Mint" wallpaper, you will see numerous images available that you can download and use. On My KDE that wallpaper's text is in Blue. Of course if you know how to use any of the image editors, like Gimp, you can create, and or modify, your image(s) with those.

FYI: It would help everyone here to have more information about your system's setup: like what edition and version of Linux Mint are you using, Cinnamon, Mate, KDE (my favorite), or Xfce; version 17, 17.1, 17.2, or What?; 32-bit or 64-bit? Some more information about your hardware would be useful as well. You can get this information from top of your system menu's Welcome screen, System Information program(s), and the best is by typing in "inxi -Fxz" from a console terminal prompt, which you can then copy and paste back here. This information helps anyone here in this forum to be able to answer any questions you may have better , thanks. You can even add this information (abbreviated) to your signature using the control panel link in the above left of this forum screen; then when you post a question or reply to one, that info will automatically be there, ex: see mine and others below their posts.

[Sepkio]

Hi Sepkio,

I just read your post and the good replies to it. Here are my thoughts on this as well.

It would help to have more specific system setup information, see FYI below.

Also, what exactly are you trying to change, what do you want to do with the text? You can create your own "wallpaper" with your own image(s) and text, or choose another one for this. If you Google search images for "Linux Mint" wallpaper, you will see numerous images available that you can download and use. On My KDE that wallpaper's text is in Blue. Of course if you know how to use any of the image editors, like Gimp, you can create, and or modify, your image(s) with those.

FYI: It would help everyone here to have more information about your system's setup: like what edition and version of Linux Mint are you using, Cinnamon, Mate, KDE (my favorite), or Xfce; version 17, 17.1, 17.2, or What?; 32-bit or 64-bit? Some more information about your hardware would be useful as well. You can get this information from top of your system menu's Welcome screen, System Information program(s), and the best is by typing in "inxi -Fxz" from a console terminal prompt, which you can then copy and paste back here. This information helps anyone here in this forum to be able to answer any questions you may have better , thanks. You can even add this information (abbreviated) to your signature using the control panel link in the above left of this forum screen; then when you post a question or reply to one, that info will automatically be there, ex: see mine and others below their posts.

I am trying to change the color of the text from green to blue. I am familiar and good with GIMP. I just cannot find the file for the default Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon wallpaper. I have found an image for version 14 online and can edit that perfectly fine, However that is version 14 and I would like to have it with the current version. At this point I believe I'm just going to screenshot it and make my own image.

[jtarin]

I just cannot find the file for the default Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon wallpaper.

/usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint

[phd21]

Hi Sepkio,

The blue text version of this wallpaper is the default for my Linux Mint KDE. It located on my system in
/usr/share/wallpapers/Linux_Mint/contents/images/

and it is called "1920x1200.1.png", or "screenshot.png".


As user "jtarin" just pointed out, these are usually located in one or both of the folders below.

/usr/share/backgrounds
and or
/usr/share/wallpapers

You can also search for any files, by their extension and or names, through your file manager, console terminal prompt, a menu item like "find files/folders", installing various other "find or search" programs, some image related programs will also automatically find images, etc....

Example: from a console terminal prompt, type in: (note this will produce a lot of results to sift through)

locate *.png *.jpg


Hope this helps ...

FYI: You do not usually need to keep the text from another's reply when you hit "quote" to a post or reply. After creating your reply, just go back up to the top and delete the previous reply's quoted text, before "submitting" your reply. No need to duplicate the text usually.

[Moem]

Grab the Linux Mint KDE screenshot here. http://www.linuxmint.com/pictures/scree ... la/kde.png
Combine it with the image in your own install.
Cut, paste, enjoy.

[Moem]

That was easy actually. Look, it's done. What do you think?

[phd21]

Hi M0em,

Looks good.

What do you mean "combine it with the image in your own install." How did you do that?

You could obviously download the file, then overwrite the current image, or save it as a new image, and just change your wallpaper to the newly downloaded image.

If the purpose, goal, or exercise, is to use an image editor (like Gimp) to actually change the text (object's) color from what it is to another, then that's a different matter.
How to Change the Colour of Objects using Gimp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2_887Lw-vo
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLUw8NSpQR8
or
GIMP: change one colour to another?
http://superuser.com/questions/153248/g ... to-another

[Moem]

Hi M0em,

Looks good.

What do you mean "combine it with the image in your own install." How did you do that?

Thanks! I used Paint Shop Pro (my graphics weapon of choice since ten years or more) to stack the KDE image on top of the original Mint Cinnamon background image as a layer, then used an eraser tool to erase the KDE logo and the icons and panel so the bottom image showed through.

Attached is a blue minty background, in case anyone wants one. This one was made by altering the colour on the original Mint Cinnamon background image. Slightly different process, slightly different effect. Enjoy!

[phd21]

Hi Everyone,

I tried one of the web link suggestions from my post on changing color of the Linux Mint logo wallpaper text object using Gimp. You just click on "colors" on toolbar, then "hue-saturation", slide the hue bar left or right for various colors. Then, you can click "File", "Export as", and pick a format that you want to save it as.

Click picture below to see short video, or right click open in new tab.

Gimp_Color_11-21-2015-1.gif

[Sepkio]

Wow. Thank you all for the answers and the help in finding the image.

For sure hue a saturation is the way to go. That was how I did it with the Mint v.14 image.

[Sepkio]

I just cannot find the file for the default Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon wallpaper.

/usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint

Thank you much.