Wallpaper is an image of appropriate size that arises as a background image of a desktop which illustrate and personalize the main screen of computers, cell phones and other devices.
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Saved Search as Wallpaper Source in Mountain Lion?
Is it possible in any way to use a Saved Search as a Wallpaper Source in Mountain Lion?
Thanks!
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Some photos - fix size - add background
Good day. I would like to ask if you do not know any free program.
I have some photos (about 100) and each photo has different dimensions. Up to 1024 x 768.
The photo must not be deformed.
And I ...
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Change desktop background Windows 7
Due to group policies enforced on our systems, we can't change the background of our desktop. The IE's "Set as desktop background" is working, but the change is not permanent. If anyone can tell a ...
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How do I setup Windows 8 Video desktop wallpapers? [closed]
I know there is a DreamScene hack for Windows 7, however after reading how much the Windows 8 Desktop Windows Manager and Explorer differs from the Windows 7 / Vista variants I am really worried about ...
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Windows 8 wallpaper slideshow simply does not work - Fresh Install
this has been driving me crazy for the past few days, I have a fresh and clean install of Windows 8 Pro 64Bit (Activated - Not upgrade).
I have about 50 JPEG wallpapers that I want to set as a ...
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How to get Windows 7 Custom OEM wallpaper to appear on multiple monitors? [duplicate]
I am already aware of how to set a custom logon background on Windows 7. I am also not trying to tile my plain wallpaper on my desktop. I am talking about the background on the logon/lock screen in ...
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Set different wallpaper for each desktop on Fedora 14
How can I set up different wallpaper on each of my desktops? How can I change them? Fedora 14, Gnome 2.32.
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On Windows 7 Mutiple Wallpaper Scenario: How would I get the filename of the currently-displayed Wallpaper? [duplicate]
Given a Windows 7 Mutiple wallpaper setup. I'm talking about hundreds of wallpapers in a folder.
Wallpapers on my desktop change every 5 minutes.
Sometimes I see a wallpaper that I want to delete, ...
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Make your Screensaver as a Wallpaper in Windows 7?
I have an ASUS laptop, a G75V model. It has 16GB Ram, 2TB of HD space, and a 2GB 660M video card. It is also a 17" LCD at 1080 DPI resolution. It has an Intel i7 processor in it. So what I think I am ...
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How can firefox change the wallpaper when the administrator blocks that feature? [closed]
Firefox is able to change the desktop background, despite that feature being blocked by my admin. How do they do it?
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Can't change Windows 8 wallpaper. Is this a bug?
I've installed Windows 8 on a single-screen desktop computer.
I can't, for the life of me, get the desktop wallpaper to change. I have done two things:
1) I right-mouse click on a file that ...
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How to restore Active Desktop if Themes is locked via GPO?
My company forces Active Desktop upon everybody so that it can display a (monthly-rotated) corporate wallpaper.jpg.
Problem is, some computers (including my laptop) somehow experienced some errors ...
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Windows 8 Start Screen Wallpaper File Location?
I was wondering if there is a specific file location for all the Windows 8 start screen backgrounds. I'm not interested in modifying the wallpapers, but I want to make an app with these wallpapers ...
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Where does Linux Mint keep the files for default desktop wallpapers?
Under Cinnamon Settings > Backgrounds, there are a lot of images I would like to move to my windows partition to use as wallpapers. Where exactly are these files located?
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Set default wallpaper for a local Windows default user profile used by all users of a domain
I want to put a wallpaper by default in a local user profile for Windows that everyone is the same wallpaper.
The local profile Windows is loaded by default when a user logs on to the Windows domain, ...
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Remove Win8 Lock screen and show password on mouse move?
When locking windows and returning back to my desk, I see a wallpaper and some info, which is really cool and I love it:
The problem is, in Windows 7 I could type in the password right when the ...
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Creating a Desktop Wallpaper Theme from a Series of Images in JPEG format?
Good Afternoon,
I have a number of desktop themes on my Windows 7 PC that change from one picture to the next after a certain time interval.
Is it possible to create my own desktop wallpaper theme, ...
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Windows 8: Different Themes or Different Wallpaper Slideshows for Multiple Monitors
I know I can assign different wallpaper for each monitor that is connected to my computer in Windows 8(by right clicking and selecting "set for monitor 1,2,etc"), but I don't know how to assign ...
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Stop Windows 8 from converting wallpapers to low quality JPGs
This has been bugging me on Windows 7 as well, and much to my chagrin Microsoft didn't bother addressing that issue in Windows 8.
Take this image for example:
(Click to open original unaltered ...
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Random Wallpaper Folder
I've been shuffling random desktop backgrounds with the built-in Windows 7 feature. What I want to do is shuffle backgrounds from a folder; where I'd drop in pictures at different times and the new ...
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Website as background on linux
Is there some way to set a website as a background? I would like it to behave just like a wallpaper (links should not be "clickable"), but it should refresh every x minutes automatically.
My DE is ...
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Group Policy no longer applying desktop wallpaper
I used to have my wallpapers updated monthly by Group Policy.
Several months ago I was prompted (I think just after logon) to grant GPO (I think) access to a wallpaper setting in the registry. It was ...
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Windows 8 desktop cannot be right-clicked + graphical glitch
I just upgraded my Windows 7 Pro (64-bit) to Windows 8 Pro (64-bit) and when I right-click on my desktop to change the wallpaper and settings, the wallpaper becomes grey (disappears) and the ...
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Unable to change wallpaper
I recently purchased Windows 8 Pro and installed it with no problems. However, I am only able to change my wallpaper to either a solid color, or the default flowers picture. I can't use a custom image ...
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Windows 8 dual monitor wallpaper slideshow
There have been a number of improvements with multi-monitor compatibility in Windows 8, but how would one go about configuring wallpaper slideshow settings for a second monitor? For instance: I want ...
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How to use WebPage as a desktop wallpaper in windows 7?
The active desktop was supported to some versions of IE and in Xp.
I want to use a webpage from any site to be my wall paper.
How to achieve that?
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How can I disable automatic pause on DreamScene?
From Troubleshooting problems with Windows DreamScene :
"Windows DreamScene pauses in the following circumstances:
You are running a program that is maximized. If you have multiple monitors and you ...
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How to set KDE desktop wallpaper from command line?
How do I set the KDE desktop wallpaper (jpg file) from command line (e.g., by a script, started by the user)?
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Force Desktop Icon Drop-Shadow Without Wallpaper?
In Windows XP (and likely 2000 and Vista/7 as well), you can set the desktop icons to have a drop-shadow effect, but it only seems to work if a wallpaper is configured. Having the wallpaper set to ...
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Windows 8 logon screen background
I got irritated by the standard Windows 8 logon screen (the same one as lock screen). How do I change the background?
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Windows 3 Animated Background/Desktop/Wallpaper [closed]
In the summer of 1995, I visited some family in Los Angeles. My uncle had a computer with Windows 3 (or some version thereof since Windows 95 had not been released yet).
In Windows 3, there was no ...
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Does a computer screen consume more power to display black or white? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does it save battery to have your desktop background set on a dark color?
Is there considerable energy saving using a black background on my website?
My VAIO advised ...
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Stretch Wallpaper Across Dual Monitor With Different Resolution
I am using Windows 7, and I have two monitors with two different resolutions (1920x1200, 1280x1024). I am trying to stretch my wallpaper across both monitors and I am wondering if it is possible to do ...
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Wallpaper changer on dual display
I am wondering if there is a program out there that allows you to set up two different wallpapers on dual monitors that change periodically.
Windows 7 has a built in feature that allows you to change ...
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Sync Windows settings
Is it possible to synchronise certain Windows 7 settings. Things like the wallpaper you use for instance, or the programs that are stored in the start menu.
Or the programs that are docked next to ...
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Low bandwidth Windows wallpaper
I connect to several different machines over a VPN using windows remote desktop. I would like to find several low bandwidth friendly wallpapers to distinguish one machine from another. It's not that ...
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How do I set an animated wallpaper on Windows Seven?
Well, on Windows XP and on Windows 98 you can put an animated gif as an wallpaper easily.
On Windows Seven, when doing that the displayed wallpaper is only a frame of the animated gif.
How to put an ...
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How do I change wallpaper real time regedit commands?
What I want is to programatically change Desktop Wallpaper every few hours. I'm using a batch file (.bat) and don't want to use other languages or programs, just the pre-installed stuff with Windows ...
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Changing wallpaper depending on time of day via script or batch file?
I want to have 2 different wallpapers that change according to time of day (6 and 22 hours respectively) and only want to display the night one after 22 hours and the day one only after 6 hours and ...
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Wallpaper/background switcher for Linux?
I'm looking for a background switcher that has these features:
Add folders to use as source of wallpapers (usually called 'monitor folder')
Enable/disable those folders (not just add/remove)
Crop ...
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How do you make abstract amorphous color backgrounds in Photoshop?
I see amorphous color field like wallpapers all the time, how do people make them?
Examples are here:
… and here:
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How can I get Windows 7-like alternating wallpapers in Windows XP? [closed]
In Windows 7, there is a theme of wallpapers which will be alternated once a few minutes. For example, in the Control Panel » Personalize, I can choose the "Nature" theme, then the wallpaper will be ...
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Software to 'stick' graphics onto windows desktop
There are plenty of sticky note software out there to put sticky notes on your desktop. But is there anything out there that allows you to do the same with photos? I don't want to just put an icon of ...
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Set an HTML page as the wallpaper on Linux
I want to set an HTML file with JavaScript as my wallpaper on Linux. I'm running Openbox, how can I set it up so this is my desktop background?
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How can I spread a wallpaper image across multiple desktops?
I'm looking for a way to strecth my wallpaper across multiple virtual desktops (workspaces).
How do I achieve that in Ubuntu. Is there an option in Compiz for that?
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Wallpaper or background or both? [closed]
In terms of electronic screens (computers, cell phones, pda, tablets etc..) what is more accurate to say: wallpaper or background. Or are they equal?
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Is there a way to automatically display the username on the Desktop background in Win7?
We have computer used by multiple users running Win7. Unfortunately, people forget to log out, or they just use the session that is currently open, or they think that they're using their own session, ...
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How to set wallpaper in wmii?
How to set wallpaper in wmii? I tried feh and xloadimage without any success. Is there any working example to set the wallapaer?
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Have a desktop wallpaper show as one image across three monitors?
I am running Ubuntu 11.10, and I have three monitors plugged in. How can I have one single image across every single monitor plugged into the machine?
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Labeled grid desktop wallpaper?
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I'd like a desktop wallpaper that:
is a grid
has cells that are each and all labeled with ascending numbers (across) and letters (down), such that the top-left cell is A0
is larger than ...
