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I try to install a wallpaper but miss the upload button. Of course I can google for "place for wallpaper ubuntu 18.04", but is that really what Ubuntu requires? This is how an Ubuntu 18 looks like - did I miss something?
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The 'Pictures' tab in the wallpaper selection window as in your screenshot gets populated by images in your ~/Pictures/ directory (or the 'Pictures' folder in your home directory). So if you want a specific image to appear here, you simply need to copy/move the image to ~/Pictures/.

Note that The Pictures tab shows images only from the 'Pictures' folder, not even from any subfolder of the Pictures folder.

If you're unhappy with the limited options this wallpaper selection window provides, you may use (GNOME) Tweaks. Install it by running

sudo apt install gnome-tweaks

Tweaks let you select image from any folder and also provides extra options to tile/zoom/centre/scale/fill/span the background image.

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  • ok thanks that was easy! but honestly, why is the option to assign a wallpaper not included in basic Ubuntu 18.04? The ~/Pictures/ folder and the others I always remove from the beginning, in this case it falls back to home folder. Jan 9, 2019 at 8:27
  • @JoeSchraube If you find this answer useful you may consider "accepting" it (by clicking the tick (✓) next to it) to indicate you've found a working solution and also so that others may more easily find it in the future.
    – pomsky
    Jan 9, 2019 at 8:29

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