Putting my own picture on the desktop.
 

How do I go about putting my own picture on the desktop (and no, I don't mean anything like a self portrait)?

It's not at all difficult, but we need to know what desktop environment/window manager you are using.

With Fluxbox, for example, you use the command

Desktop environments such as KDE and XFCE commonly provide graphical tools for doing this, but they tend to be a little different from DE to DE.

Here are a couple words of advice for getting your questions answered on here or any other similar forum:

1. Please attempt at least a basic Google search first to see if your problem has already been solved. Everyone here provides help for free, and if we see that you obviously put little to no effort into figuring out the problem first, we are less likely to help.

2. Please provide relevant information about your system when asking for help. No one is a mind reader, and it's impossible to provide an accurate answer without any information.

In this case, it's quite clear you did neither of these things, because a quick Google search would almost certainly answer your question. But even Google would need to know what desktop environment or window manager you are using.

I did both o those things, and neither one provided me with the information I was hoping to find (if they did, I wouldn't have asked on this forum), and the reason that I don't provide very much information in the first place is because I don't always know what information you need to begin with. So for starters, I am using the default KDE desktop, and after searching all the menu options, I saw nothing that gives me the option to select my own "wallpaper", as they say :(.

Right click on an open space on the desktop and a menu should pop up. Then left click on, "default desktop settings" (or something like that).

Or click on the "cashew" thing that probably is labeled Desktop. (Unless you moved it, it should be near the top right corner of the screen.) That will pop up a list, with one of the options called "Default desktop settings."

FYI, the wallpaper is handled by the window manager or desktop environment. KDE is a desktop environment, and Xfce is the other one that comes with Slackware. Window managers include fluxbox, openbox, jwm, and others, and technically KDE and Xfce also have a window manager component to them. You should say which of these you are using when you have questions about things that relate to the user interface.

Put at least some effort into your questions; don't just dump your thoughts here and then abandon them. Nobody who is sincere will be given the cold shoulder, no matter how rudimentary their knowledge. If, on the other hand, members suspect they are being trolled then they will react accordingly.

I have been in your position, not knowing enough to formulate the question, never mind understand the answer. If you feel that way just say so; as I say, nobody sincerely looking for help will be given the cold shoulder at this forum.

And enjoy the progress you make while you learn.

;-)

I did that, and nothing showed up the even remotely resembled "default desktop settings" :(.

I clicked on the "cashew" thing, and there was no "Default desktop settings" option :(.

Thank you for your encouragement :).

see attachments

right click open area of kde desktop gives:desktop-config-default-settings.png

selecting Default Desktop Settings gives:default-settings-wallpaper.jpg

select one of the images or navigate to where you have you own image, click ok

Are you still logging in to KDE as root?

Please attach a screenshot showing the menu that appears when you right-click on a blank part of the desktop.

Admin, please delete this post. It was a waste of electrons.
:banghead:

Actually, mine does look like that - but it won't let me select my own files (from my own hard drive) which is what I was referring to in the first place :(.

Then why did you say that you couldn't find the "Default Desktop Settings" option, if you actually could, but the problem was something else?