How to Create Loopable Wallpapers for Nokia N900

October 24th, 2009 • Mark Guim • Filed Under •

I know it’s not out yet, but you can prepare by creating your own loopable wallpapers for the Nokia N900. Sometimes visuals are better than words, so I created this video to show you how to do it.

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Quick steps

  • Get equirectangular photos
  • Crop it to 3200 x 480
  • Slice it into 4 images of 800×480 images
  • Create a .desktop file to group the images
  • Transfer the 5 files to N900/images folder

Sample .paris.desktop text file

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Background Image
Name=360 Paris
Hidden=True

X-File1=/home/user/MyDocs/.images/360paris_01.jpg
X-File2=/home/user/MyDocs/.images/360paris_02.jpg
X-File3=/home/user/MyDocs/.images/360paris_03.jpg
X-File4=/home/user/MyDocs/.images/360paris_04.jpg

X-Order=01

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  • Hello and thank you for this article, there are some very good wallpapers listed there. I will certainly be visiting this blog regularly :)

    If you don’t mind, then I would also add one article, which contains many great websites and a little guide about how to choose the most suitable wallpapers for your computer.

    Thank you and here is the article: http://fr.ee/article/guide-to-free-wallpapers-a...
  • Orrins
    I did what you did, but it did not show up on my N900.
  • good tutorial, can i do this without photoshop?
  • Great tutorial.
  • jay
    this is awesome. i wish i knew how to program. an app to automatically change ur background every certain time would be awesome.
  • Matt Lenski
    Very impressive, will be using these wallpapers when I get my hands on the N900 :)
  • Great way of creating your own backgrounds!

    Would be cool to share them.. btw, do you know how to do the same in Gimp?
  • Gimp?
    Simple -
    1. Crop to 3200x480
    2. Select from 0,0 to 800, 480 - copy, paste as new image.
    3. Invert selection
    4. Crop to selection
    5. Rinse and repeat until you do #4 and are left with a 800x480 portion.
    5. Save the images with useful enough names.
    6. Enjoy.
  • Sorry, but I don't have any experience with Gimp
  • prashant
    Great tutorial.
  • in full agreement with that statement
  • Thank you
  • @dallasblack
    Mark, you tweeted your Paris background for the N900 sometime ago. Can you please retweet or post it? I really, really like it.
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