Question about wallpaper...can you change the way the Tile setting works?

Factual Questions
1

I recently upgraded to a 22inch flatscreen that insists on a 1680x1050 setting.

and that definitly messes with all my backgrounds of which I have hundreds.

so my options are center wich can leave a ton of extra space
Stretch…not really an option unless you are into warped everthing
and Tile, I like the tile option with one complaint, it always places the initial image in the upper left corner and then tiles from there. what I would like is to have the initial image centered and then tile from there (with off center tiles from that one would rock but I would just love to have this feature at all)

and again my google fu is to weak for this one.

2

My WAG is that you are SOL. Calculations for tiling begin from the top left-hand corner of the screen, regardless of the graphics card and monitor used.

3

This might be stating the obvious to you but just in case…

You could of course create your own jpeg files using photoshop or similar. Either creating a blank document to the correct dimensions and copying and pasting your image from the centre out, or trimming your pictures top and bottom to fill the screen without distortion.

I suspect this isn’t much help to you but i think it’s your only option. For me, i just live with the distortion although i must admit it does bug me a little.

4

You could use a graphics program to ‘recenter’ the tiles. Just make an image out of 4 copies of the original picture, i.e. aligned as if they were tiled, and crop out a new tile with its topleft point being the point which, when placed in the upper left corner of the screen, will give you a centered image on your monitor.
This’d be a lot of work to do manually with hundreds of pictures, but is probably amenable to scripting.

5

You might try looking for a desktop wallpaper changer/manager. One of them might be able to resize to the maximum of one of the dimensions of your screen while preserving the aspect ratio.

6

Another option is to resize the tile, to make it fit evenly within the 1680x1050. For example, make it 168x105 pixels. Otherwise, one of the previously-mentioned solutions is the best.

7

actually I never cosidered the idea of just creating my own tiled images…would be a lot of work though.

I kinda figured I was outta luck but I was hoping for some script you could patch in.