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In Kubuntu, I set the desktop background as "Bing's Picture of the Day".

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 ~/Pictures.

Where are these background images saved?

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  • Very interesting question! On Kubuntu 18.04, all I can I find a modification to ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc: [Containments][125][Wallpaper][org.kde.potd][General]\n FillMode=2\n Provider=bing\n but no actual image anywhere!
    – DK Bose
    Dec 20, 2019 at 6:51
  • Please see the edit to my answer which mentions an "archive" for Bing wallpapers. You may find it useful.
    – DK Bose
    Feb 22, 2020 at 12:20
  • And, according to that site, the Trees of many colors is "Rainbow eucalyptus trees along the Hana Highway, Maui, Hawaii (© GlowingEarth/Getty Images Plus)(Bing United States)" from 201912 - United States.
    – DK Bose
    Feb 22, 2020 at 12:46

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The images are saved in ~/.cache/plasma_engine_potd.

~/.cache/plasma_engine_potd $ ll
total 47492
drwxrwxr-x 2 dkb dkb     4096 Dec 20 15:43 ./
drwxrwxr-x 9 dkb dkb     4096 Dec 20 12:11 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dkb dkb  3540733 Dec 20 15:43 apod
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dkb dkb  3462109 Dec 20 12:11 bing
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dkb dkb 41607252 Dec 20 14:30 wcpotd
~/.cache/plasma_engine_potd $ file *
apod:   PNG image data, 3049 x 1033, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced
bing:   PNG image data, 1920 x 1080, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced
wcpotd: PNG image data, 7963 x 4886, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced

Credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/5rv5v4/really_like_the_picture_of_the_day_wallpaper/ddbfyol/

To use these images, copy them over to the folder in which you store your wallpapers and modify the filenames to have .png as the file extension. This step is necessary for the GUI to list them.

By the way, a deleted answer by miharix linked to a site where it's possible to view previous Bing wallpapers along with a brief description of each wallpaper.

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  • ty, I alternatively tried kinds of predicates of find with -time, -size, and today's picture name, again failed to locate.
    – Wizard
    Dec 20, 2019 at 10:49
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    @Algebra please see the edited answer, Thanks!
    – DK Bose
    Dec 20, 2019 at 10:52
  • @Algebra see further edit re. having to rename them with .png.
    – DK Bose
    Dec 20, 2019 at 10:59
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    cheers again, btw, Picture "Tree of many colors" of today is appealing.
    – Wizard
    Dec 20, 2019 at 11:00
  • That location didn't work for me anymore. @abrac answer solved it.
    – lepe
    Jul 5, 2022 at 0:56
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In my case, it was in ~/.cache/plasma_engine_potd/. Possibly they changed the location after an update.

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  • Yes I agree, on Kubuntu 22.04 LTS (plasma 5.24) the default location is ~/.cache/plasma_engine_potd
    – Gilles Gaido
    Jun 11, 2022 at 21:21
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I have never used kubuntu before, but looking at some information about KDE, I would suggest looking in your home directory for one of either of these options

$HOME/.local/share/wallpapers

$HOME/.kde/share/wallpapers

This link may be helpful

KDE Location of user wallpapers

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