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I was running screenshots I would grab from anime if there was a lingering shot on a nice scene. Had a really nice sky and clouds shot for a while. Phone has had a nice Hiroshi Nagai painting since I got it.

Currently just on one of the Mint defaults since the latest installation. I'll change it. Eventually.

I use KDE default wallpapers as well, because something keeps switching them as I regularly plug/unplug additional monitors and I don't bother trobleshooting the issue anymore.

I have a high-key photo of spring cherry blossoms, that I took myself on my SDDM greeter, though.

Used to have my own photo of a wall made of tires as my wallpaper as well.

#6a4d53 - I do care about it, but rather as the color in the window gaps.

I use JWST Images from NASA. It's a free library of fascinating high res images

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:

The Starry Night, on all my devices for about 5 years now Straight outta Wikipedia

I use #222e45. I think that it's been constant since the 1990s or so.

 $ convert -size 200x200 "xc:#222e45" example.png

I don't see it much these days, since I'm using sway, which does tiling window management. There's almost always something fully covering it now.

Arknights wallpapers for the last 5 years. Suzuran and Lappland.

I use Wallpaper Engine for animated and interactive wallpapers. They're fucking awesome!

Anyone know if there's something easy to use like Wallpaper Engine for Linux? Specifically on Bazzite

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)

Some relevant comms

• !wallpapers@lemmy.ca
• !wallpapers@lemmy.world
• !ultrawide_wallpapers@lemmy.world
• !wallpapers@sh.itjust.works
• !animewallpapers@ani.social

I always use images from the JWST:

https://esawebb.org/images/?sort=-release_date

They're all gorgeous.

For my phone backgrounds, I use pictures made by Seok98.

GiTS/Jujutsu Kaisen anime girls.

*I'm so surprised how many people use solid colours. Interesting to see other peoples apparent mindset in that regard.

*Should also say I don't use desktop icons like a dirty pleb >:3 i use ubuntu btw (and idrc if you use icons)

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.

Forrest's or plants. The green is relaxing.

I'm using the "Astronomy Pic of the Day".

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.

I have a folder with 598 pictures of stealth aircraft that are cycled through as wallpaper and screen saver.

I like black wallpaper. I like to keep the serial number of the machine visible. the wallpaper is black with the serial number.

my phone lock screen includes my imeis, mac address, bluetooth mac, model, and serial no

I'm just quirky like that

I use two different pieces of art I made myself for my mobile and desktop devices respectively!

I don't keep icons on my desktop, so contrast isn't something I worry about, and I'm a sucker for colors :3

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

https://wallhaven.cc/

Animated: https://vidplay.io/stream/jmS-NRCQpClo6vdGe8N84A

I have an anime girl wallpaper with a pink reddish theme

Solid color: Light-ish dull-ish green. Been using it since I concluded that I didn't like the Win98 default, and it has carried over to other OSes after that.

Roughly #81e39b

TLDR: if you're a VRChat player/enjoyer, Find a cool world in VRChat to pose in with your favorite avatar by yourself or with friends and take a picture with the in-game camera.

Alternatively, "Elite Dangerous" is a great desktop background generator! Find a cool spot and take a screenshot. Boom. New desktop background haha.

/end TLDR

I play alot of VRChat and I found a cool world in VRChat called " VR art 'New place' ". It's basically a VR art museum where you click on the "painting" and it teleports you inside of it. The scenery in the world is super super pretty and very cool; I highly recommend it.

What I did is I found a spot that I thought would look good for a desktop background. I posed on a dock facing a giant moon. And then used VRChat's fly camera to give some distance. Thus making my avatar appear small in the center and expanding the view of the art in the world. That way the focus is moreso on the world with my small avatar in the center.

It's kind of like placing yourself in the middle of your favorite desktop background. Granted I suppose any experienced photoshopper or photographer could do something similar haha.

As for Elite Dangerous, I've enjoyed flying my ship to a cool star system and then using the spectator camera to take pictures of cool phenomena and use those as desktop background too. Some of my favorites include: landing on Ring planets, finding a tiny planet with a view of 3 or more stars, or pictures of black holes.

urban photography which i heavily edited

At work, all black, because I prefer working in a darkened room and sometimes I need to use the laptop in sunny conditions full of glare. I have no need of any extra light getting blasted at me not directly related to something I'm working on. Also, I get a kick out of the "Why are your other monitors off?" comments. Also, IT tends to clutter my desktop with a bunch of shortcuts with a hodgepodge of icon styles, it's a lot easier to visually parse these on a black field.

At home, the media server is directly connected to a TV with HDMI and has a desktop environment. My distributions default wallpapers always come in two varieties, colorful or greyscale. The server automatically logs into a restricted user account for family access to Kodi, retro arch, web browsing, etc., which has the colorful wallpaper. If for some reason I need to get into the admin account with a GUI, the desktop wallpaper is grey. It's like an always-on simplified color coded whoami. Since I almost never interact with this machine except through ssh or the services it hosts, this is the most amount of ricing I'm willing to do.

I have a script that pulls a fresh image from NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day and sets it as a wallpaper. But I rarely see it because 99.9% of the time my windows are maximized and I don't have things on the desktop.

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.

at work, on my main desktop, I use a picture I took on vacation (of Scotland)

otherwise I have to use a lot of servers so I color code the desktops to remind myself of what systems it is or how critical it is. Using red or uncomfortable colors on systems that are critical keeps me from making mistakes on them.

At home on my laptop, I have been using the KDE OneStandsOut wallpaper for a few years https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers/-/blob/master/OneStandsOut/contents/screenshot.jpg?ref_type=heads

its simple and nice to look at for a few seconds when I am actually looking at the desktop loading after a reboot or something

I like this artist’s stuff for my wallpapers on all my devices except my work machine:

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/zDalZ4

Custom. I have a folder of wallpapers I've been accumulating over the past thirty years, since I got my first laptop (brick of a thing, too) on my way to college. There are photos, parks from comics, MS Paint drawings, diagrams, even screenshots of previous desktop setups.