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
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)
It varies, right now I’ve got outdoor photos I took on my work computer and phone, and a game screenshot on my home computer.
I use green.
I found a bunch of 4k dark wallpapers and rotate them out occasionally with a script I wrote.
Default, I love scarlet tree
I’m using the “Astronomy Pic of the Day”.
I have a hyprland „rice“ config (didn’t do it myself) which came with beautiful backgrounds ootb but I don’t really use it at all. The one i mostly use is close to stock sway with the default sway-bg background.
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
Currently I have mine themed to vault-tec branding, but I’m not a big fan of blue so it will probably change soon.
Removed by mod
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.
50% grey solid color. I SO do not care about my desktop background, and whenever I see one of these “beauuutiful” pictures I become a bit annoyed.
$ convert -size 200x200 "xc:gray50" example.png
I like this artist’s stuff for my wallpapers on all my devices except my work machine:
Custom wall papers always for personal machines.
I use to have a monotone black wallpaper because I had weird game glitches when I had a wallpaper, but I don’t play that game anymore so now I have one of the moon.
Solid black to save my OLED screen from burn in.
