How to Change Your Desktop Background in Ubuntu 16.04

Hello everyone, my name is Adam Maros Box and welcome back to another Ubuntu 16.04 tips video. In this video, I'm going to show you how to change your desktop background for Ubuntu. As this one's kind of boring, so first and foremost, right-click on the desktop or go to System Settings and click on "Change Desktop Background". Both ways will take you to about the same place.

Now that you're there, you have a few different options. You can choose from wallpapers, which has a default set of wallpapers here. You can choose one that you like, move your window around figure out which one will look best to you. I don't really like any of these to be honest, uh but I'm going to go with the city skyline one. Maybe none of these really appeal to me, I'm going to go with the city skyline one for now.

You also have a few more customization options here. But I've already done a full Ubuntu customization tutorial, link to that will be on the card icon or description down below. My cat is walking on my laptop, I put um but that was a very lengthy vid so video, so I'm doing some individualized kind of tutorial things so you have the default wallpapers that are built in goodbye cat.

You have pictures folder which you can set to be a full folder of your pictures which I'm going to show you in just a moment. Or you can choose just plain colors and gradients. Here's a black here's a blue gradient although it's not doing anything when I previously did this, it set it to an actual color so we'll do like light blue to dark blue and then you can change which direction that gradient goes. That's kind of cool so that those are the basic wallpapers available.

If you want to know where to get some neat wallpapers, actually go to a site called Wall Haven, it's in Alpha, used to be called wallbase.cc and now it's alpha.wallhaven.cc I don't exactly know what happened to it but they changed it a little bit. They have a lot of different wallpapers of just about anything so you can hit random they're going to have some weird ones that have like scantily clad girls and stuff but you don't want any of that and they do have filters like this is all safer work.

And then there's sketchy, you can choose resolution we are running at 1080p so I'm going to search for full HD here uh ratio actually yeah I'm just going to do 16 by 9 that's what's important uh resolution can be anything cuz we're going to assume it's high uh it's you know all right a number of favorites we're going to go by that and we're going to look for let's just look for I I don't know so we're just going to keep scrolling through that random real quick let's find a wallpaper that looks kind of nice that looks really nice but I don't know if I want that as a wallpaper let's find something basic here that would be decent as a background for videos.

That is what I'm wanting uh that's kind of neat o that might be decently contrasted and it's 1900 by 1200 perfect. And see you can also if you're browsing an image you want to use right click it and go to set as desktop background, save yourself a couple of steps position center set his desktop background now.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone my name is Adam maros box and welcome back to another Ubuntu 16.04 tips video in this video I'm going to show you how to change your desktop background for Ubuntu as this one's kind of boring so first and foremost right you can either get to this by two ways either by your system settings button or just rightclick change desktop background they're both going to take you to about the same place now you have a few different options here you can choose wallpapers and it has a default set of wallpapers here you can choose one that you like move your window around figure out which one will look best to you I don't really like any of these to be honest uh but I'm going to go with the city skyline one maybe none of these really appeal to me I'm going to go with the city skyline one for now and then you have a few you have you have more customization options here but I've already done a full uh Ubuntu customization tutorial link to that will be on the card icon or description down below and my cat is walking on my laptop I put um but that was a very lengthy vid so video so I'm doing some individualized kind of tutorial things so you have the default wallpapers that are built in goodbye cat you have pictures folder you can set it to be a full folder of your pictures which I'm going to show you in just a moment or you can choose just plain colors and gradients so here's a black here's a blue gradient although it's not doing anything when I previously did this it set it to an actual color so we'll do like light blue to dark blue and then you can change which direction that gradient goes that's kind of cool so that those are the basic wallpapers available if you want to know where to get some neat wallpapers actually go to a site called wall Haven it's in Alpha it used to be called wallbase.cc and now it's alpha. wallhaven.cc I don't exactly know what happened to it but they changed it a little bit they have a lot of different wallpapers of just about anything so you can hit random they're going to have some weird ones that have like scantily clad girls and stuff but you don't want any of that and they do have filters like this is all safeer work and then there's sketchy you can choose resolution we are running at 1080p so I'm going to search for full HD here uh ratio actually yeah I'm just going to do 16 by 9 that's what's important uh resolution can be anything cuz we're going to assume it's high uh it's you know all right a number of favorites we're going to go by that and we're going to look for let's just look for I I don't know so we're just going to keep scrolling through that random real quick let's find a wallpaper that looks kind of nice that looks really nice but I don't know if I want that as a wallpaper let's find something basic here that would be decent as a background for videos that is what I'm wanting uh that's kind of neat o that might be decently contrasted and it's 1900 by 1200 perfect and see you can also if you're browsing an image you want to use right click it and go to set as desktop background save yourself a couple of steps position center set his desktop background now if we minimize Firefox you will see you have a nice little background here and I think I like it for this for for these videos for now so that's how you change your desktop background I will download a couple here real quick let's just grab a couple uh save image we're just going to make a pictures folder here great pop wallpapers save or save that one we just used and we're going to pull up one more ooh let's get this space one that one's very high resolution and save so now if we close Firefox close tabs and go to change desktop background and if we choose pictures folder add a folder wallpapers select them all open and now you have them available to pick from hope you enjoyed this video guys if it was helpful for you smash that like button get subscribed for more awesome Tech videos I will have a link to the playlist in the description below where I have other Ubuntu 16.04 videos and tutorials and otherwise I'll catch you in the next videohello everyone my name is Adam maros box and welcome back to another Ubuntu 16.04 tips video in this video I'm going to show you how to change your desktop background for Ubuntu as this one's kind of boring so first and foremost right you can either get to this by two ways either by your system settings button or just rightclick change desktop background they're both going to take you to about the same place now you have a few different options here you can choose wallpapers and it has a default set of wallpapers here you can choose one that you like move your window around figure out which one will look best to you I don't really like any of these to be honest uh but I'm going to go with the city skyline one maybe none of these really appeal to me I'm going to go with the city skyline one for now and then you have a few you have you have more customization options here but I've already done a full uh Ubuntu customization tutorial link to that will be on the card icon or description down below and my cat is walking on my laptop I put um but that was a very lengthy vid so video so I'm doing some individualized kind of tutorial things so you have the default wallpapers that are built in goodbye cat you have pictures folder you can set it to be a full folder of your pictures which I'm going to show you in just a moment or you can choose just plain colors and gradients so here's a black here's a blue gradient although it's not doing anything when I previously did this it set it to an actual color so we'll do like light blue to dark blue and then you can change which direction that gradient goes that's kind of cool so that those are the basic wallpapers available if you want to know where to get some neat wallpapers actually go to a site called wall Haven it's in Alpha it used to be called wallbase.cc and now it's alpha. wallhaven.cc I don't exactly know what happened to it but they changed it a little bit they have a lot of different wallpapers of just about anything so you can hit random they're going to have some weird ones that have like scantily clad girls and stuff but you don't want any of that and they do have filters like this is all safeer work and then there's sketchy you can choose resolution we are running at 1080p so I'm going to search for full HD here uh ratio actually yeah I'm just going to do 16 by 9 that's what's important uh resolution can be anything cuz we're going to assume it's high uh it's you know all right a number of favorites we're going to go by that and we're going to look for let's just look for I I don't know so we're just going to keep scrolling through that random real quick let's find a wallpaper that looks kind of nice that looks really nice but I don't know if I want that as a wallpaper let's find something basic here that would be decent as a background for videos that is what I'm wanting uh that's kind of neat o that might be decently contrasted and it's 1900 by 1200 perfect and see you can also if you're browsing an image you want to use right click it and go to set as desktop background save yourself a couple of steps position center set his desktop background now if we minimize Firefox you will see you have a nice little background here and I think I like it for this for for these videos for now so that's how you change your desktop background I will download a couple here real quick let's just grab a couple uh save image we're just going to make a pictures folder here great pop wallpapers save or save that one we just used and we're going to pull up one more ooh let's get this space one that one's very high resolution and save so now if we close Firefox close tabs and go to change desktop background and if we choose pictures folder add a folder wallpapers select them all open and now you have them available to pick from hope you enjoyed this video guys if it was helpful for you smash that like button get subscribed for more awesome Tech videos I will have a link to the playlist in the description below where I have other Ubuntu 16.04 videos and tutorials and otherwise I'll catch you in the next video\n"