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How do I easily resize a wallpaper for my screen?

I like to use wallpapers from Interfacelift but not all the wallpapers are my screens resolution and I was wondering what the best/easiest method would be to resize then to fit onto my resolution. I ...
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Why do the wallpapers I put in the 'Pictures folder' in the appearence settings never save?

I was in the appearance settings and I added some of my own custom wallpapers. It was all good, until I went back later only to find that all of the images I have imported where gone. Ever time I ...
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Why opening Ubuntu's default wallpaper (warty-final-ubuntu.png) in Image Viewer always fails?

Everytime I try to open Ubuntu (any version, since from 8.04 with which I started) default wallpaper, named "warty-final-ubuntu.png", I get the following error. I have also reported bug for the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 wallpaper problem when using two monitors

I am using two monitors, the main resolution is 1920x1080 and the secondary is 1440x900. Everything seems to work fine (with default drivers, fglrx crashes bad), besides windows opening in the wrong ...
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Why is the default wallpaper in jpg format, rather than a lossless format like png?

Is it just to save disk space? Or does it effect loading time/performance in some way? You'd think that you'd want the best quality possible image for something you'll be looking at throughout the ...