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The Fedora GNOME desktop allows the background to be changed either to a solid or graded color, or to any image you choose to specify. In this chapter of Fedora Desktop Essentials we will look at changing the desktop background.
== Changing the Fedora GNOME Desktop Background ==
There are three methods for changing the background, either by clicking with the right hand mouse button on the current desktop background and selecting ''Change Desktop Background'', selecting the ''Administration->Preferences->Appearances'' menu option, or clicking with the right hand-mouse button on an image in the web browser and selecting ''Set As Desktop Background''. The latter method allows you find images from one of the many web sites that provide them and quickly make it one of them your background.
Regardless of which method you use, the ''Appearance Preferences'' dialog will appear. If the Background screen is not currently displayed, select it by clicking on the ''Background'' tab:
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From this dialog select whether the image should be tiled, stretched or centered. If space is going to be visible around the edges of the image be sure to select a suitable color for the border area using the color box. Click on ''Set as Desktop Background'' to apply the settings.
An alternative mechanism for specifying an image as the desktop background is to once again open the ''Desktop Appearances'' dialog (right click on the desktop background and choose ''Change Desktop Background''). In the resulting dialog click on the ''Add'' button and browse the filesystem file system to locate the desired image. Click on ''Open'' to add the image to the wallpaper list and use the ''Style'' selection box to choose ''Fill Screen'', ''Tiled'', ''Scaled'' or ''Centered''.
== Summary ==
In this chapter we have looked at changing the Fedora desktop background. In the next chapter we will look at [[Changing Fedora Desktop Themes and Fonts]].
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