Tile Desktop Background

I cannot seem to get my pictures to be tiled on my desktop. If I have a 1944x2592 jpeg, is it possible to tile this size picture?

Well, as far as I know, you can only tile if the picture is of a lower resolution than your screen. The picture you describe is much larger and probably will not tile.
Glor

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