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

  • Wolf314159@startrek.website
    6·
    21 hours ago

    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.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      5·
      20 hours ago

      At work, all black

      Not sure that this requires an example, but since I’m doing example images for some other comments, for consistency:

      $ convert -size 200x200 "xc:black" example.png

      • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        19 hours ago

        Lol that’s the exact same as voyagers background colour in dark mode.

        I almost thought the link was broken.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          2·
          18 hours ago

          The next question will be everyone’s Threadiverse client background color.

      • Wolf314159@startrek.website
        2·
        19 hours ago

        Ok, but I can also just choose the color directly and not set an image as a wallpaper. I appreciate your effort, but what is the advantage here to tiling a PNG?

        • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
          1·
          8 hours ago

          It’s also useful when you pick a wallpaper e.g. in your file browser or an image viewer, as opposed to going somewhere else to view the color.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          3·
          18 hours ago

          I’m not suggesting you use it. I’m putting visible color swatches for people to see in the thread. Black’s pretty straightforward, of course.