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

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

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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.

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

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

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)

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

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

Some relevant comms

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

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

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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

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 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:

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I have an anime girl wallpaper with a pink reddish theme

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.

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

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

I have a selection of natural scenes - some that I have taken myself, other found on the web - that rotate each two hours around the day. Night shots at night etc.

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 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'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.

Custom, but I understand the appeal of sticking with the default.

I think the issue with wallpapers is that there's a very fine balance that it needs to strike: not too simple that it's monotonous, but not too fancy that it's distracting and hides icons. Too many wallpapers swing too significantly in either extreme that I simply don't like the vast majority of wallpapers that I find.

Interestingly, KDE seems to strike this balance relatively consistently - they must be aware and are actively attempting to strike that balance. I don't know how else to explain it.

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.

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.

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

Default, I love scarlet tree

Slide show with slow changes, only every 6 hours. It shows a selection of my own photos of beautiful nature, according to the current season.

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.

Forrest's or plants. The green is relaxing.

I historically have looked for pictures that have a lot of visual depth, like a cityscape or a vista or the ocean or landscape something. It needs to be pleasant to look at and complex but not too busy. I also like there to be a range of emotions that I can feel from it, so that I'm not locked into anything depressing. Generally, the only times I see my wallpaper are when I'm overwhelmed and minimize/close everything, I'm looking for a reset, or on a phonecall and I'm thinking without doing anything else simultaneously.

An added bonus is symmetry, either a vertical line or horizontal, or multiple. Even more bonus is if it's natural AND aligned with the orientation (the picture not just being taken askew of a thing that is symmetrical). So that I can drag the selector with my mouse and make shapes. I know I'm not the only person that does this.

Oh also, brought sunlight and cool colors I find better. Nothing dark and broody or monotone, as those get old super fast. Imperial Boy (an artist) is close, but often either not detailed enough, or too gut wrenchingly melancholy for my sanity, or even not deep enough. Like imagine looking at a picture of a campfire vs being able to stare at an actual campfire. One of those is significantly more pensive.

I'll stick with these for years until I have a need to change, like from a serious life event.

Reading the other comments is wild. Everybody's so interesting and different. The people who are like, "i like this very specific shade of grey" i can't help but let my imagination run. You're either military or like a million of the same exact grey outfits with the same daily routine and the Up! music is playing.

Haven't set up my kde desktop yet, so default from install for now. My "other" os uses a totally black background (how often do I see any part of my de? only for a few seconds, before that the os had a folder of images downloaded from nasa of stars and other galactic images

urban photography which i heavily edited

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

I have never really used wallpapers. I have always used an all black screen.

Now screen savers/locked screen images, I have numerous pictures I use of Star Wars things, mmy vacation photos etc.

I have a photo of the outdoors somewhere. I change jt everybfew months to keep up with the season

Poorly cropped (by me) manga screencaps mostly. Some silly pictures and landscapes here and there too