The K Desktop Environment

3.4. Wallpaper

The wallpaper is an image displayed in the background (root window) of your display. To change the wallpaper displayed, select one from the list or click the Browse button and select an image. If wish to use a One Color or Two Color background, choose No Wallpaper.

Choose from the Arrangement list to select how the wallpaper image is applied to the desktop: various tiling, mirroring, or scaling schemes are possible, and their effects may be seen in the Preview box.

You may also select Random which causes a random sequence of backgrounds to be displayed, changing after a specified time interval. Click on the Setup button to select the sequence of backgrounds that are chosen from. The sequence will be sampled randomly, unless you make the selection that the sequence is sampled in order. The Timer Delay box allows you to set the interval in seconds between changes. If the icon for the background display settings is docked in the Panel, and Random is selected, you can click on the icon to cause the next scheduled background change to occur immediately.

If the option Pick files from directory is selected, the backgrounds wil be chosen from the set of wallpaper files in the selected directory entered in the box that opens. If this option is not selected, they will be chosen from a user-created sequence of backgrounds listed in the main box.

Displaying wallpaper requires that the image be kept in memory. If you are low on memory, using a small, tiled image or none at all is recommended. Note that scaling or centering a small image still requires an image the size of your display to be maintained in memory.