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What wallpaper are you using right now?

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Show me your desktop. What wallpaper are you using right now?

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  1. To answer my own question, I’m using the default Fedora 10 wallpaper, but have been known to also sport the pink Django pony wallpaper on occasion… :)

    Posted by mairin | January 21, 2009, 8:29 pm

  2. I use a solid blue. However, it’s 100% covered most of the time. I never minimize windows, only shuffle them around. I don’t use multiply workspaces either.

    Posted by zaitcev | January 21, 2009, 8:54 pm

  3. re: What wallpaper are you using right now?

    the best grass wallpaper I could find

    http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/163405/January.png

    Posted by Anonymous | January 21, 2009, 8:55 pm

  4. I’m using the default Fedora 10 wallpaper… under Fedora 9 :P

    Posted by ivazquez | January 21, 2009, 9:03 pm

  5. Solid grey.

    Posted by Anonymous | January 21, 2009, 9:04 pm

  6. Solid color

    #4A525A

    Posted by Anonymous | January 21, 2009, 9:05 pm

  7. The default vertical gradient. :/

    Posted by jkkm | January 21, 2009, 9:06 pm

  8. Jo Chen’s Willow

    From the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8″ graphic novels:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/anna_thetical/356567218/

    Posted by Anonymous | January 21, 2009, 9:11 pm

  9. Solar at 1600×1200

    and I totally dig it.

    Posted by Anonymous | January 21, 2009, 9:14 pm

  10. We had this thread a while ago on the french forum, there are 49 pages of Desktop screenshots:

    http://forums.fedora-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=5532

    Enjoy ;)

    ~pingou

    Posted by Anonymous | January 21, 2009, 9:17 pm

  12. Rotate my wallpaper every 30 minutes

    I download various images from Astronomy Picture of the Day and use them as backgrounds with various other things that I snarf. I used to have a different desktop per window but the window managers don’t seem to support that as nicely as they used to. I have wallpaper-tray rotate through them so I get something different whenever a desktop is free. Otherwise it rotates various images I have snarfed (the other big one is ICF ones that were done a while back.)

    Does that help?

    I am adding the pink ponies to my rotation so that I can send it to people who ask me for the impossible.

    Posted by Anonymous | January 21, 2009, 9:22 pm

    • Re: Rotate my wallpaper every 30 minutes

      Can you tell me which one you have displaying right now, or a recent one that you really like?

      Posted by mairin | January 21, 2009, 9:40 pm

  13. It depends on webilder :) http://www.webilder.org

    Posted by Anonymous | January 21, 2009, 9:29 pm

  14. Wallpaporz

    I’m using this on my Eee PC: http://molaora.com/index.php/photos/album/4/photo/68.html

    And this on my primary desktop computer: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/InvinXble#Wallpaper:

    Posted by Anonymous | January 21, 2009, 9:31 pm

  15. escher paranoia

    http://www.mcescher.net/target37.html, tiled :) .

    Posted by Anonymous | January 21, 2009, 9:47 pm

  16. I’m using the default Fedora 10 wallpaper.

    My screen tends to be filled with apps, so I don’t usually see it often enough to care about changing it.

    Posted by wakko | January 21, 2009, 9:54 pm

  17. I’m using my own photo with small GNOME logo on it: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Sunflower?content=78290

    But what probably is much more interesting for you is located here: http://informationisart.com/desktop/

    Posted by Anonymous | January 21, 2009, 9:56 pm

  18. My 4-year-old daughter ordered me to use
    file:///usr/share/backgrounds/images/flowers_and_leaves.jpg :) But default F10 Solar theme sneaks in sometimes

    Posted by mcepl | January 21, 2009, 9:57 pm

  19. At work, I’m using a picture I’m making that’s currently in progress:
    http://libbydance.com/files/random/Robots.gif
    this is in the hopes that it will inspire me to actually finish it someday ;)

    At home, I have this picture as my background:
    http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff28/beatonna/patriot.jpg
    because it amuses me so!

    Posted by superlib | January 21, 2009, 10:00 pm

  20. Hilltop View by someone named phil2001.

    It was posted on InterfaceLIFT a few days ago.

    Posted by Anonymous | January 21, 2009, 10:19 pm

  21. I normally use wallpapers from one of my three favorite wallpaper sources: InterfaceLIFT, KDE-Look.org or the Fedora Art Team…there’s lots of really cool wallpapers IMHO :) and there’s always something new if I need something different :)

    Right now:
    #1: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Magic+Garden?content=85632
    #2: http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/1415/leeds_castle_grounds.html
    #3: F10 default theme :)

    Posted by Anonymous | January 21, 2009, 10:24 pm

  22. What wallpaper?

    Nice question! I also use wallpaper-tray to randomise my desktop wallpaper at each login – right now I’m looking at a panorama I stitched together using Hugin.

    The picture is of the openplan workspace were I used to work. It has a nice feel for the space, and most people happened to be sitting still while I took the snaps, but there is one pair of disembodied feet walking towards the camera, and my manager is aiming a Nerf gun at me *8)

    ps. found this on your Gnome feed…

    Posted by Anonymous | January 21, 2009, 10:27 pm

  23. My current desktop

    Here below is my current desktop, enjoy ;)

    http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/9PuMReLvGreBL9fpQzxWcQ?feat=directlink

    -Steph-

    Posted by Anonymous | January 21, 2009, 10:33 pm

  24. The default KDE 4.2 wallpaper, which I think is so pretty I put it on my Windows install as well.

    Posted by ww_macgyver_do | January 21, 2009, 10:44 pm

  26. Wallpaper

    I’ve used the default Ubuntu Ibex wallpaper for some time, but lately I’ve changed it to this beautiful photo:

    http://www.vistaultimate.com/vista-wallpapers/Windows-Vista-Mountain-Wallpaper.jpg

    Posted by Anonymous | January 21, 2009, 10:58 pm

  27. Simple

    http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2009/01/09/how-my-desktop-looks — very simple Ubuntu brown wallpaper I made (the background colour of which I plan to bleed onto the bezel surrounding the screen of my laptop).

    Posted by Anonymous | January 21, 2009, 11:40 pm

  29. Garrets photos – this one ATM

    http://flickr.com/photos/garrett/3008245591/

    Posted by Anonymous | January 21, 2009, 11:52 pm

  32. http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/1324/new_york_city_by_paulo_barcellos_jr..html

    I use this on all my PC’s. Absolutely love it.

    Posted by Anonymous | January 22, 2009, 12:48 am

    • Very cool. It definitely gives a nice feeling of depth, but it’s dark and muted so I can see how it wouldn’t be too distracting, either.

      Posted by mairin | January 23, 2009, 8:33 pm

  33. I’m with Zaitcev

    I’m with Zaitcev – solid blue, because I never see it.

    There’s a Mandriva forum ‘show off your desktop’ thread here:

    http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=67796

    I’d expect the Ubuntu forums would have one too, if you look.

    Posted by adamwill | January 22, 2009, 12:52 am

  35. Hi, sorry for depressive pictures, but i like this:)

    My wallpaper: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3498/3216070333_e5acc60d58_o.jpg
    My desktop: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3428/3216917544_1d75b425a9_o.png

    Picture from northern ural. It’s russian railway:)

    Posted by moose_kazan | January 22, 2009, 1:20 am

  36. Custom desktop using a fractal I created a while ago: http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/7929/deskoh5.jpg

    Posted by fusa42 | January 22, 2009, 1:32 am

  37. Wallpaper

    I’ve got a neat picture I took from near where I grew up. This is an old “short line” railroad track that runs as far as the eye can see.

    http://picasaweb.google.com/KF4OTN/CarolinaCoastalRailroad#5147757671360502962

    Posted by Anonymous | January 22, 2009, 3:25 am

  38. It’s my latest deviantart submission

    Posted by Anonymous | January 22, 2009, 3:52 am

  39. I’m currently using this wallpaper called LHBlissful.bmp. No idea where it originally came from; I received it via email after seeing it in a screenshot on DeviantArt and asking the poster where he got it from.

    Here is a link to my reupload, conveniently converted to high quality JPEG.
    http://jamesgecko.googlepages.com/LHBlissful.jpg

    Posted by Anonymous | January 22, 2009, 4:50 am

  40. I use this:
    http://rinatan.deviantart.com/art/The-World-of-MOTHER2-93441124

    I had previously a tasteful-but-scantily-clad pic of Velma from Scooby-Doo. You can email me if you want that one, I’ll spare your readers.

    –CJD

    Posted by Anonymous | January 22, 2009, 5:42 am

  42. For F8 and F9 I stayed with the default wallpaper, but I can’t stand Solar due to a technical glitch (the sun does not look 3D, but like a circle with beveled edges, not sure if that was so since the beginning or was added in the clean-up process with the replacement of the moon photo).

    So right now I use some self-made photos (close-up of dead roses on the desktop and fireworks on the laptop). But most of the time the wallpaper is covered by windows, so it does not really matter.

    BTW, I saw this asked a few times and don’t know the answer myself: how can one change the GDM wallpaper so it fit the desktop wallpaper? you know, for a really smooth translation from GDM to desktop.

    Posted by nicubunulj | January 22, 2009, 7:31 am

    • Infinity FTW

      I’ve always used Fedora default backgrounds.

      But since F8, I kinda got stuck to Infinity. :)

      Posted by Anonymous | January 22, 2009, 9:16 am

    • I’ll have to ask Ray since I’m not sure myself… one sec

      Posted by mairin | January 23, 2009, 6:46 pm

    • Nicu, Ray says that you have to run gnome-appearance-properties, choose the background that you want, then pick ‘set as default’ – whatever background is ‘set as default’ will be GDM’s background.

      Posted by mairin | January 23, 2009, 6:51 pm

      • thanks, it was so intuitive that I feel bad now for not noticing the button before… well, not *that* bad since I am not the only who didn’t notice the button, Andreas Nilsson was asking the same thing in #fedora-art and nobody had an answer :p

        but from an usability POV, that button looks like the best choice.

        Posted by nicubunulj | January 26, 2009, 6:59 am

  43. wallpaper

    xsetroot -solid black

    I never see my desktop anyway.

    Posted by dnivie | January 22, 2009, 9:24 am

  45. My desktop

    http://static.fi/~zeenix/tmp/zeenix-desktop.png

    Zeeshan Ali (Khattak).

    Posted by Anonymous | January 22, 2009, 10:16 am

  46. Despite the small size/resolution for a 1440×900 screen, I’m still using a seven-year-old background

    http://web.archive.org/web/20031114192127/www.imperialcenter.com/3d/cloudcity.jpg

    I’ve attempted to contact the creator a couple times over the years since then asking for the source files or a significantly higher-resolution version (ideally with a much larger aspect ratio), but no dice. Even with the necessary stretching for my screen’s resolution and aspect ratio, however, I have always loved this background, especially for how little it distracts from the contents of the desktop. I was on a big Star Wars theming kick at the time I selected this, trying at least a dozen different backgrounds, even some truly garish ones derived from posters. Those backgrounds might have worked as posters, but they were too visually busy to work as a desktop background that shouldn’t distract from the icons on it. After much experimentation this was the only background I found that was Star Wars-functional yet not eye-catching, and I’ve stuck with it every since. I did try to use an Apple background in OS X once, but even with the better quality and fit for my screen, I had to go back to this one.

    Posted by Anonymous | January 22, 2009, 11:03 am

    • Re: Despite the small size/resolution for a 1440×900 screen, I’m still using a seven-year-old backgr

      (By the way, that was Jeff Walden who posted the parent comment of this; I simply forgot to identify myself, as is my usual custom on blog posts whose comments don’t easily allow for structured self-identification.)

      Posted by Anonymous | January 25, 2009, 5:35 am

  47. Ask and ye shall receive!

    http://dgoodwin.dangerouslyinc.com/files/Screenshot.png

    Only using the wallpaper cuz it matched icons I wanted to use. :)

    -dgoodwin

    Posted by Anonymous | January 22, 2009, 12:49 pm

  49. My Wallpaper

    From, Dave Richards from City of Largo.

    http://imagebin.ca/view/1fu9D6.html

    Posted by Anonymous | January 22, 2009, 1:50 pm

  51. I made a big collage of various pictures of my two sons that spans my 1920×1200+1600×1200 dual monitor setup. I usually use pictures of them or other photos I’ve taken for wall papers on all my systems.

    Posted by Anonymous | January 22, 2009, 4:33 pm

  52. background

    http://domsch.com/linux/fedora/fedora-at-mit.jpg

    This is my daughter, wearing my Fedora cap (she steals it from me every time she sees it), and the MIT “Smart Cookie” t-shirt I picked up last summer at FUDConF10 Boston.

    Posted by Anonymous | January 22, 2009, 5:11 pm

  53. My wallpaper

    This is my new wallpaper just found it a couple days ago!
    http://www.xfce-look.org/CONTENT/content-files/35476-mgla_wiosenna.jpg

    Posted by Anonymous | January 23, 2009, 1:55 am

    • Re: My wallpaper

      that’s gorgeous! it reminds me of a photographic version of AA Milne’s winnie the pooh artwork…

      Posted by mairin | January 23, 2009, 8:29 pm

  54. Background image

    I am using the following 3360×1050 background:

    http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/1723/roadside_attraction.html

    Desktops need some more dual wide-screen monitor love :)

    —

    Oh, and mihmo, keep up the great graphics work.

    Posted by Anonymous | January 23, 2009, 3:17 am

    • Re: Background image

      wow, that’s quite nice, it’s got a lot of depth to it too!

      thanks for the nice comments about my work :)

      Posted by mairin | January 23, 2009, 8:24 pm

  55. What wallpaper are you using right now?

    This photo of Fay Wray

    http://www.doctormacro1.info/Images/Wray,%20Fay/Annex/Annex%20-%20Wray,%20Fay_03.jpg

    Michael

    Posted by Anonymous | January 23, 2009, 2:00 pm

  56. most ppl don’t like my background

    http://www.harrysmitharchives.com/2_artwork/art6.html

    …besides i’m not sure of the redistribution terms.

    Posted by Anonymous | January 23, 2009, 3:10 pm

  57. my background

    I’ve been using this for a year or something. I think Lennart Pottering took it.
    http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/Blinds.jpg
    - Andreas Nilsson

    Posted by Anonymous | January 23, 2009, 4:34 pm

  58. http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/1787/200901231916442704x1050ep8.png – i like dark, non distracting wallpapers. It’s here just because on solid color my terminals slip and crash =P

    Posted by thestalwart | January 23, 2009, 5:25 pm

  59. notes from Danial:

    In response to your email (from the art team mailing list) and survey,
    whereas I really do enjoy most of the default artwork created for
    fedora, I usually change the theme and wallpapers almost immediately. Normally I either use photos or graphics I have created myself.

    My current wallpaper selection(s) on F10 are derived from these shots:

    http://www.zyloo-enterprises.com/graphics/October-moon-600.jpg
    http://www.zyloo-enterprises.com/graphics/autumn-mix.jpg
    http://www.zyloo-enterprises.com/graphics/backlit-leaves-600.jpg
    http://www.zyloo-enterprises.com/graphics/floor-reds-600.jpg
    http://www.zyloo-enterprises.com/graphics/big-thumbnail.jpg

    These, however, are subject to change depending on whether or not I good
    any decent shots from the latest weekend jaunt. ;)

    http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204180
    http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=209560
    http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=209561
    http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=209562
    http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=207159
    http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=209007
    http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=209494
    http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=210399

    On a more serious note, my work machine, is a simple vertical gradient
    due to the number of icons I keep on the workspace.

    Posted by mairin | January 23, 2009, 8:23 pm

  60. Former Windows User

    Former windows user here.. I’ve been using the default wallpaper on every Fedora release. Funny, I cannot stand the default Windows wallpaper, and I’ve not found a better Fedora wallpaper. I think the artwork group does a phenomenal job.

    I have never liked busy, detracting wallpaper.

    Posted by pchoppin | January 23, 2009, 10:19 pm

  61. I also use the Solar wallpaper. It looks awesome. I have never seen such a nice artwork anywhere.

    Posted by Anonymous | January 30, 2009, 6:01 pm

  62. I also use Solar wallpaper. It looks awesome. I have never seen such a nice art work ever.

    Posted by rahmanangel | January 30, 2009, 6:16 pm

  63. i normally have all wallpapers at ‘~/.backgrounds’, and have a python script which runs at startup and gets one randomly from there

    Posted by nitrofurano | August 11, 2010, 4:20 pm

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