I like real photos. Use several of my own.
In selecting pictures for desktop background you seem to need a particular sort of color and brightness and pattern detail… so it does not overwhelm the windows.
Does any have a theory about that?
John’s Background switcher can also use local photos from your hard drive. Here is the pulldown to add a new source. You can choose multiple sources.
There are also several layouts.
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John’s background switcher looks fine. But Variety is standard in most repositories for Linux distros. And I can mix in my folder of local photos along with Variety’s many great sources. Windows and Mac stuff isn’t very useful.
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I have not had time to research this, but as I have a widescreen monitor, I have a lot of issues in using my own self-made wallpapers to display correctly. The text is always cut off no matter which method I choose. I either get black bars on the side, distorted image (in stretched mode), etc.
Will have to check out using something other than Linux Mint’s desktop wallpaper manager.
Thanks,
Sheila
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You can install Variety and check it out in about three minutes, then dump it if you don’t like it. Synaptic Package Manager is the fastest way.
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