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 use JWST Images from NASA. It’s a free library of fascinating high res images
Arknights wallpapers for the last 5 years. Suzuran and Lappland.
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
Have you ever lost desktop icons in this busy painting? :)
Not really a fan of icons on desktop, just a sticky note icon in bottom right
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.
Neat! My wallpaper (which is also just a subdued solid color) basically lives in the tiny margins between windows on my system, plus I see the whole thing when I go to a fresh workspace.
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.
Did you get it as a tattoo as well?
Yes, the art was just commissioned separately from the tattoo part.
I use Wallpaper Engine for animated and interactive wallpapers. They’re fucking awesome!
Best thing about the year 2020 onwards is Wallpaper Engine
I didn’t know I needed this until a second ago, but wow do i need this now. Thanks for the tip!
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.
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
Some relevant comms
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 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 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
Forrest’s or plants. The green is relaxing.
I’m using the “Astronomy Pic of the Day”.
