What is your desktop wallpaper?

[xenoxols]

This is what I use on my laptop. (scaled down)

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On my desktop it's just solid black, because I haven't verified windows 7 because I was lazy and then lost my key before I ever bothered.

[Caligari87]

I wrote a program to generate wallpapers for me so they always fit exactly to the screen resolution (image with transparency drawn on top of a tiled pattern).

I've done the same with my wallpaper collection since many of the paintings I want aren't widescreen or the right aspect. I'm using the wallpaper switcher Variety on Linux, which has custom ImageMagick filters. I managed to come up with one that fits the image based on its largest dimension, then fills the rest of the background with a heavily blurred and contrast-bumped version. Details in this post, code for the filter because I'm proud of it

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filter9 = False|Pad with Blur| \( -clone 0 -resize 1366x768^ -fill black -colorize 50% -blur 64x40 \) \( -clone 0 -bordercolor black -border 1x1 -resize 1366x768 \) -delete 0 -gravity center -composite -extent 1366x768

Here's the kind of results I get (click for fullsize):

[Viscra Maelstrom]

i could never figure out why people would use a collection of random wallpapers that's being cycled throgh constantly, but eh. i trust it's not a system hog if it's that well-loved by users?

mine's just the default Win 7 one for now, since my other one is at service. that one's using this rather awesome picture i commissioned some months (i think) ago.

[Project Shadowcat]

Currently my wallpaper is the reverse cover of the new Doom game (which I'm sure everyone's seen), but for the longest time, it cycled through about 25 different blueprints of various BattleMechs from MechWarrior Online. Here's one such example.

[Caligari87]

i could never figure out why people would use a collection of random wallpapers that's being cycled throgh constantly, but eh. i trust it's not a system hog if it's that well-loved by users?

It kinda depends on your usage model. For me, the wallpaper is set to cycle once every three days. Aside from that it's idle, so the only CPU usage is when it picks a new one and applies my custom filter, which takes maybe 10 seconds tops.

Now if you're cycling HD wallpapers every five minutes, then that's probably cutting into a good chunk of CPU and memory on a consistent basis. Definitely stay away from that.

[Oberron]

Changed to my favourite car of all time that was a Kit Car in rallying since 1997.

[Viscra Maelstrom]

i could never figure out why people would use a collection of random wallpapers that's being cycled throgh constantly, but eh. i trust it's not a system hog if it's that well-loved by users?

It kinda depends on your usage model. For me, the wallpaper is set to cycle once every three days. Aside from that it's idle, so the only CPU usage is when it picks a new one and applies my custom filter, which takes maybe 10 seconds tops.

Now if you're cycling HD wallpapers every five minutes, then that's probably cutting into a good chunk of CPU and memory on a consistent basis. Definitely stay away from that.

i was under the impression that "cycling the wallpaper every 30 seconds" was the popular method of doing it. your way of doing it, however, is fairly sensible. i'd perhaps be doing that myself if i had enough wallpapers to bother with it.

[Kinsie]

It's buried under full-screen windows all day anyway, and I don't keep any icons on there, so who needs detail?

[TypeSaucy]

i could never figure out why people would use a collection of random wallpapers that's being cycled throgh constantly, but eh. i trust it's not a system hog if it's that well-loved by users?

It kinda depends on your usage model. For me, the wallpaper is set to cycle once every three days. Aside from that it's idle, so the only CPU usage is when it picks a new one and applies my custom filter, which takes maybe 10 seconds tops.

Now if you're cycling HD wallpapers every five minutes, then that's probably cutting into a good chunk of CPU and memory on a consistent basis. Definitely stay away from that.

Well, that's something new that I learn about. I'll be setting it to 30 mins then.

Also, I have a thing that I sometimes get bored of looking at the same wallpaper for a while even if I like it. It's more of a variety of pictures that I really like to look at.

[leileilol]

if you judge on my avatar you'd think it's ecchi porn based on world of warcraft or something

it's

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a solid #008080

[Marisa the Magician]

That sounds a bit uncomfortable on the eyes.

[BFG]

http://wallpapercave.com/wp/t2GFdHk.png

[MartinHowe]

Took this one myself from where I live - Beccles Common as seen from Lowestoft Road

[Redfox123]

Took this one myself from where I live - Beccles Common as seen from Lowestoft Road

if i took a pic from my place all you would see is ice
well it actually depends on the seasons

[Luigi2600]

This is mine i know it's something that's no longer funny but i'm too lazy to change it into something better. However my previous one was a pepe version of Mancubus spewing out shit from his weapons.

Winners Aren't Choosers - Donald .J. Trump

Current Wallpaper
http://cdn3-i.hitc-s.com/222/untitled_2_106401.jpg

Old One
https://i.warosu.org/data/vr/img/0024/0 ... 797934.png