Questions tagged [desktop-background]
A desktop background, or wallpaper, or just background is a digital image used as a decorative background on the desktop. Use this tag for questions regarding either the image or solid color displayed on the desktop background. DO NOT use this tag for questions about the background of specific applications. In such cases just use the application's tag.
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How do I create a desktop wallpaper slideshow?
How do I create a desktop wallpaper slideshow with my own set of images?
With the images coming from a pictures folder, or pre-selected
With the images displayed in order, or randomly
With the ...
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Where are the Unity desktop wallpapers located?
Please see the picture below. Where are the Unity desktop wallpapers located?
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How can I get the monitor resolution using the command line?
I would like to find a wallpaper that best suits my resolution. How can I get the resolution just by writing commands in the command line?
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Is it possible to have a different background for each workspace?
I normally use 4 different workspaces for different things, and they are always the same. Can I make a different background image for each one of them?
I would like an answer that works for GNOME 3 ...
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How to change desktop background from command line in Unity?
I have a script that updates my desktop background every day with the NASA APOD. Since upgrading to 11.10, that script stopped working, presumably because I'm using gconftool-2 to actually update the ...
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How do I change the wallpaper of the login screen?
I would like to set the wallpaper in the login screen (Unity Greeter), how do I do that?
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Why are my wallpaper settings, tile, zoom, center, scale, fill or span options no longer available?
Up until a couple months ago, if I changed my wallpaper/background image, I could choose between tile, zoom, centre, scale, fill or span. These options no longer appear in GUI for changing the ...
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Desktop shows a white or black background instead of wallpapers
After the upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04 my desktop background turns black after I try to set a image for that. How to fix it?
This is my desktop screen:
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Ubuntu 20.04 change background to solid colour
There was an option to change background to solid color. However, I notice that that option is no longer there.
The only options available are to use existing image or to add picture.
Was this setting ...
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How to span single wallpaper over dual monitors?
I have dual monitor set up in Ubuntu 11.10. I want to have a single wallpaper spanned across both monitors. How do I do this?
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How can I choose the Zoom virtual background feature using Ubuntu?
I have installed the Zoom Desktop Client for Linux on Ubuntu 18.04.
I would like to use the Virtual Background feature, but I do not know how to activate it.
My Zoom Linux Client Version is 3.5.385850....
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Wallpaper is not changing and right click does not work on desktop in Ubuntu 14.04
Sorry if this question is already answered, but I have already searched and could not find a solution to my problem.
Recently I installed gnome-shell and ubuntu-gnome-desktop to try gnome. I then ...
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Changing login screen wallpaper
I have been trying to change my login screen wallpaper to one of my own using ubuntu-tweak. The wallpapers are located in Ubuntu's default wallpaper folder and I have given all users read privileges ...
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No background options other than default pictures
I am using freshly installed Ubuntu 19.10 on a Dell Precision 7530 laptop.
Under settings - background, I cannot change the background to anything other that the default pictures.
According to Ubuntu ...
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Bing Picture of the Day as Desktop Wallpaper?
Can anyone help me out with how to make Bing Picture to my Desktop Wallpaper?
So it works by downloading the highest quality of todays picture.
Then storing it ex in the Picture folder of your ...
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How do I install wallpapers from older releases?
I have currently installed 12.04 and I really like the wallpapers of 11.10. How do I install it in 12.04?
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Where can I find all the wallpapers ever included?
Is there a place where I can find all the wallpapers ever included on the Ubuntu CDs (not just the default ones)??
I remember some nice ones, like the one with the cherries. A package would be great!...
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Change desktop background to a solid color (e.g. pitch black) in GNOME 3
I just installed Ubuntu 16.04 with GNOME and I would like to set the background color to black.
If I right click in the background I can select a wallpaper or a photo or a color. But there are only a ...
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How do I submit wallpapers to be considered for inclusion in Ubuntu?
I take photos from time to time, and if I take an exceptionally beautiful one, I'd like to submit it for inclusion in Ubuntu. Where do I send/upload it?
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Is there a way to shut off showing the user's wallpaper at the login screen?
I don't want to expose my wallpaper to other people who share my computer, is there a way I can disable this feature or work around it?
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How do I change the start up sound?
How do i change the start up background music in Ubuntu and can i add any customized music for startup? What are the various ways of setting this?
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Workspace specific wallpapers with Compiz? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to have a different background for each workspace?
Is it possible to get a different wallpaper for each workspace using Compiz? I've found a tutorial telling me ...
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How do I add customized wallpapers so they appear in the dynamic unity greeter?
As the title above suggests I want to add some custom wallpapers (png images I have created myself) to the user/share/backgrounds folder in 12.04. I have completed this task.
Issue : They do NOT ...
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How do I add new wallpapers?
I have Ubuntu 11.10 installed and want to download and install additional wallpapers on my desktop.
How do I do this?
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Where is Bing's Picture of the Day stored on my system?
In Kubuntu, I set the desktop background as "Bing's Picture of the Day".
Some pictures are so good that I desire to store them for further reference.
However, the pictures are not located within ~/...
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Active Web Site as Gnome Background
Is there a way to put an active website, such as Gmail, as your Desktop background in Gnome, running Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit? MS Win calls it "Active Desktop".
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How I can change the GDM login screen wallpaper?
How I can change the GDM 3.6 Wallpaper? I dont mean the desktop background, but the Wallpaper at the login (GDM 3.6).
Thanks
Thank you for your answer,
I know exactly what you mean. Recently I had ...
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How do I contribute a wallpaper to new Ubuntu releases?
I am willing to contribute to the new Ubuntu update. I have a lot of good quality images that were taken by me, and I'm willing to contribute them as wallpapers for the next Ubuntu release. But the ...
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What is the building photographed in this stock wallpaper?
I'm sure I've seen a picture of the full building somewhere. The image is a blue-tinted display of the building's facade - facing into a blue sky. It's a part of the stock wallpapers in Ubuntu 10.10 (...
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Where does Ubuntu store the picture that I set as my desktop?
I have a pretty picture set as my desktop background, but I've lost the original file. However, my desktop is still set to this picture. How can I get back my picture?
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How to set a .mp4 as a Wallpaper?
Is there a way to set an mp4 as an ubuntu wallpaper? Or any other format as long as it is an animation?
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Different wallpapers on multiple monitors
I have a laptop and a monitor. Most of the time my laptop is connected to the monitor over HDMI. I use Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 and here is what I want:
When no monitor is connected I want a simple ...
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Variety not working in dark mode on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
hello update from Ubuntu 21.10 to 22.04 but it turns out that after updating I have noticed that variety stopped working and no longer shows me my custom backgrounds in dark mode instead it shows me ...
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(Xubuntu) How to set the wallpaper using the command line?
I've done a lot of googling but haven't been able to find a solution to my problem.
I am a teacher and I'm using Xubuntu on some student computers. I have everything locked down pretty good, but I ...
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How to get non-image (plain) desktop background? [duplicate]
I don't want a background image on my desktop. Even the color background is a PNG image file. Want just a RGB color pick, or plain background.
Having a background image makes remote desktop too ...
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Picture of a spaceship occasionally appears on my monitor when switching monitors
Seriously. No joke.
Clean 13.10 install. Not a single picture on my computer. I press F4 to switch over to my external monitor and...what is this?
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How to find out location / path of current active desktop background image (Ubuntu 18.04, GNOME)?
I've set up custom desktop background image some time ago, and now I can't remember where it's located in my system. I really like the image, and want to know how to output image location so I can ...
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How do I set the background color/pattern in a Nautilus window?
In Previous versions of Ubuntu, I used to go under the edit menu to set the background color of a Nautilus window. I have no idea how to do this in Ubuntu.
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Command to change the wallpaper in XUbuntu
Doing a google search reveals the command
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-path -s <image-path>
The first time I run this command I got a message saying that ...
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Where is the "Default Wallpaper" wallpaper stored
I just upgraded to 14.04, and it's amazing. Obviously, I went to check out the new backgrounds and one caught my eye. It's an abstract blue design and is marked as one that changes throughout the day ...
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How to change desktop background colour in GNOME?
I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18, and I have set an image as my desktop background, it has a white bit around it, however when I set it to be "Spanned" on my desktop in the GNOME Tweak ...
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Running .sh every 5 minutes
I have a .sh script that downloads a photo from Japanese satellite's server and sets it as a background picture. I've put it into startup list, but how do I run it every, like, 5 minutes, ...
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How to change wallpapers of all clients?
As said before we are running more than 500 ubuntu PC's in our company. Often we used to set our company ads as a wallpaper in clients machine. It is difficult for us to change wallpapers in all these ...
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Use a calendar as desktop wallpaper
Is it possible to use a calendar as a desktop wallpaper (it could be a simple calendar application pinned to the desktop)?
I am hoping for something looking like this:
Ideally the calendar should ...
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How do I set another search directory for wallpapers?
I keep all my documents on a separate drive from my ubuntu installation, and I have a folder full of nice wallpapers on that drive. How can I make ubuntu automatically search this directory so ...
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How can I change the wallpaper using a Python script?
I want to change my wallpaper in Ubuntu 11.10 (with Unity) in a small Python script.
I found the possibility to change it via the gconf-editor in /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename. With ...
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How do I set a VLC instance to run as a Live Wallpaper
I've seen an article describing how to use VLC as a live wallpaper for the desktop, however the options mentioned there only refer to Windows.
What would I need to do to achieve the same result?
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Cannot change login screen background in 18.10
I changed both the desktop and login screen background photos. However,only desktop photo is changed. The one on the login screen is still the purple Ubuntu one. Is this a bug?
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How to remove Change Desktop Background from right click?
I want to restrict users on changing wallpapers and themes. So can anyone say me how to remove
Change Desktop Background option from right click?
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I just totally want to remove that option ...
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How to restrict users on changing their wallpapers?
I don't want my users to change the system wallpaper. How do I the lock the wallpaper down?
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Users are changing wallpaper by right clicking the picture and choosing set as wallpaper. How to ...
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