here we go again. Perhaps Slackware is not the right distro for you, might need something more "user friendly".

https://lmsptfy.com/?q=how%20do%20I%...20wallpaper%3F

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Oh, I agree, but it is not any easier to setup wallpaper with ms-windows. It could be that English is a foreign language to the OP, or, perhaps, he should be using Linux Mint, but, OTOH, like ms-windows, setting up wallpaper won't be any easier. As the pattern keeps repeating itself, and given his handle, I starting to wonder if we are not being trolled.

Only use Windows once a year for tax purposes, so I can't recall the process of changing wallpaper on there. On the other hand, considering their recent posts over the last few days, I think troll is looking likely. Always in favor of giving people the benefit of the doubt, but at some point....

How hard is it to right click on desktop, click desktop settings and see the wallpaper options, then if you want a personal photo, click open and select the folder/photo then click apply and ok.

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Oh, I absolutely agree...... to a point.

There was an article linked at, I think, LXer recently in which the author, a well-known Linux enthusiast, admitted she trolled Linux forums to see how welcoming they were to newbies. I lost all respect for her the minute I read that. It doesn't surprise me though: judging by the likes of opensource.com and other sites it seems politics and equality and all that jazz are more important than open source to these people and their corporate overlords now.

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Slackware is hardly a "newbie" distro, and that is pretty well known. But not that a newbie would know that I guess.

If anyone were to participate in activities like trolling just to see how welcoming the forums are, then IMO that is all that they are, a troll. In this case, I wouldn't be surprised if that is what is happening due to the simple fact that if you can install Slackware, get KDE up and running, and networking up and running then you have enough smarts to figure out how to change the desktop wallpaper. Also the number of posts this person has created in the time span since they joined LQ and the complete lack of information that they give while trying to figure out their "problems" not to mention the simplicity of their issues leads me to think that this person either didn't do a full install or they are a troll. Honestly I'm leaning towards troll.

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which is an idiotic thing to do because someone being intentionally obtuse sticks out like a saw thumb and won't get the same response as a real beginner would. As the Kate Bush song along similar lines goes "... she couldn't have made a worse choice."


BTW, who was it? Not our favourite slackware hater by any chance?

No not her.

Afraid I didn't bookmark it though. I'm pretty sure it was some time in the last month or so.

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Ahh, ok. No worries. If I cared enough I'm sure I could find it... but I don't.

My memory's atrocious for things that happened a month ago yet I remember things that happened 23 years ago in minute detail!

This sort of question is not really worth asking here, since it is trivial to find the information online if you bother to search for it.

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Talking about wallpaper, as -stable user I'm waiting the new Xfce
with different wallpapers per desktop and wallpaper slideshow
Better than this just those KDE animations for desktop change,
but I don't like much KDE as a DE.

Xfce-4.12 has been rock solid since it was added to -current. The features you mentioned are available, as you know, in 4.12 and they are not much different than the similar options in KDE.

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What is being implied I feel is that as Linux users we are supposed to be all friendly, welcoming FOSS advocates by default, doing whatever it takes to 'bring people over'. In my mind, after Ubuntu, supercomputers, MacOSX, iOS and Android, we don't need to defend Unix much. Besides, Windows is also not really much of a flaky pile of security holes anymore. To people who mostly want to browse the web, exchange Office documents, like Photoshop and want to play FarCry Primal, I recommend using it.

Nobody would even consider testing welcomingness by posting questions on cycling enthusiast forums like 'Hello how do I fix a bike please it does not work properly'.

(S)he may also just be part of a different generation that is more used to off-the-cuff social media type conversations figuring out stuff as one goes along.
@TheNutCase, or @other people that are genuine newbies in case you aren't one after all, if you doubt which information to give upfront, assume you need to tell this crowd as much as possible, we usually know how to skip the irrelevant bits, and it helps to show your effort so far and your skill level.

Example question:

Hello, I am having some trouble changing the desktop wallpaper to a custom picture I have stored in my home folder (definitely_not_a_selfie.jpg).
I don't use kdm, but I have created a normal user as per the slackware documentation. I log in as that user and start kde by using the startx command, it looks like all KDE 4 screenshots on the web so I think nothing wrong there. I am currently looking at a picture of some grassy dunes that I assume is a default picture. There are no icons on my desktop yet except a blue folder saying Home and a Trash bin.
Searching change wallpaper linux told me to right-click and select Change Desktop Background, but I have no such option, only Create new, Undo and Paste (both grayed out), Icons, Refresh Desktop, Open with Konqueror, Run Command, Add widgets, Add panel, Activities, Lock widgets, Lock Screen, Leave, and Folder view settings.
Trying some other searches like change wallpaper kde showed me answers with screenshots that one of those options should be Default Desktop settings, but that does not appear either (see above). I was going through System Settings and the closest thing I found there was Workspace Appearance - Desktop Theme, but that seemed to be about interface colors rather than about images.
Would any KDE users have any pointers?

Example answer:

Right-click somewhere on the desktop indeed, then click Folder view settings (whatever you have as the bottom option).
Make sure in the left pane View is selected, now click the Open button. Click the image file you want - you said it's a jpg, that should be fine.
Click Apply, and OK. In case one of the buttons I mentioned wasn't where it was expected to be, please tell us which one.

Relax people, I finally figured out how to do what I wanted to do.