Asking because I only recently realized that I’ve been running KDE default wallpapers for over a year without noticing. I’m also debating whether to switch to something more “fun” and aligned to my hobbies
As far as I’m aware, popular OSes/DEs tend to have a healthy selection of high-quality default wallpapers, and some OSes/DEs even have wallpaper “shops”. So I’d like to ask what you all use! If you are using a custom one, love to hear where/why you got it.
If you want to share your custom wallpaper feel free to
Edit: thank you all! I didn’t realize how many of you use solid colors… as well as the number of people who don’t think too much about wallpapers since you don’t look at it often (frankly the same for me). For the ones who shared: thanks a ton. Also fun story: there was a recurring joke on r/Unixporn about anime wallpapers but I guess it is not remotely as popular outside of the ricing community
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I cannot share them because I ain’t letting there be any chance of my favorite online artist know, but for a while I have been using a few of my favorites of his work in a background slideshow that changes every five minutes. It’s wholesome furry art.
Before that, I was using wallpapers done from the guy who does the Pepper & Carrot webcomic. Then before that, I used a screenshot from a music video and had copies where all I did was open them up in Krita and change the colours around .
That’s for my laptop.
For my desktop, my final and only windows device ( still running 10 but I’m moving it to an SSD and removing internet access so I can switch to mint most likely because of my dad making the switch scarely enough ), I currently have a lot of Tails fanart off of Pixiv I have running as a slideshow.
Before that, I used some images like a random Sly Cooper image I found or this fantastic image of the 2 main characters of the webcomic Peter & Company chilling under a tree as Peter plays on his switch and his guardian angel reads a book. Pretty normal furry stuff, I guess
I almost never use OS default backgrounds besides right now in a couple VMs I have to do some college work.
The Starry Night, on all my devices for about 5 years now Straight outta Wikipedia
I also run KDE. Living room PC I’m using:
https://github.com/y4my4my4m/kde-shader-wallpaper
https://godotshaders.com/shader/balatro-background-shader/
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XXtBRr
I really like the Balatro shader. This plugin is awesome eye candy and stable, highly recommend.
Desktop PC has three monitors, two are just static Images from Wallhaven. Primary is using another KDE plugin that reuses Wallpaper Engine themes I’m subscribed to via Steam back when I used Windows… somewhat. Don’t recommend because it’s prone to crashing when a theme is incompatible and you have to edit a config file to remove the broken paper entry to get your taskbar responsive again. I trial and errored until I just had a handful of my old favourites that work.
https://github.com/catsout/wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin
I always use a simple diagonal gradient with the three colours of the bisexual flag. I am bisexual, but it’s mostly because I like the colours. Whenever I get a new device, I generate an appropriately-sized gradient for its screen using GIMP.
The one exception is the background of my Steam Deck in desktop mode, which is the following because I thought it was funny:
Forrest’s or plants. The green is relaxing.
I paid a stupid amount of money (because of currency conversion, their rates were reasonable) for some art for tattoos, and the artist formatted it as a wallpaper for me.
It has been my wallpaper ever since.
I run custom backgrounds.
Work computer or any windows machine: black. I have zero interest in wallpapers.
My home computer and my work from home computer are all KDE and I really like the slowly changing patterns ones. I should try and figure out how to make those, preferably in mostly dark and out of the way colors.
Why do people set wallpapers? When you are at the computer dont you use it for something? Why would you want a distracting wall paper in the way?
I’ve got a small handful of random wallpapers I’ve collected over the years, but I’m really picky and almost always end up going with the stock wallpapers. I’m on Debian 13 and I’ve been using this one since Debian 11.
Chaotic neutral here
I cycle wallpapers from different OSes, but never the one running. Work W11 laptop has the Debian wallpaper now, OpenBSD laptop the Windows 10 backlit glass one, etc
(I do the same with game character names)
I’m using the “Astronomy Pic of the Day”.
Anyone know if there’s something easy to use like Wallpaper Engine for Linux? Specifically on Bazzite
That hasn’t worked on my desktop in the past, except to crash KDE unfortunately.
I can try again though I guess…
Try this: https://github.com/y4my4my4m/kde-shader-wallpaper
You can get it directly through KDE: Desktop Settings -> “Get New Plugins…” button.
It’s more limited since it’s only shaders, but there’s a lot of shaders out there.
This is bundled into the plugin for example. You can use their shadertoy link for a proper preview, but you need a browser with WebGL enabled:
https://godotshaders.com/shader/balatro-background-shader/
There’s 100 built in and you can add new ones, but it’s not painless for now:
https://github.com/y4my4my4m/kde-shader-wallpaper/blob/master/README_DEV.md
urban photography which i heavily edited
