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A desktop wallpaper is a background picture, image or pattern, where icons, desktop menues and other items are
displayed. The image wallpaper can be in GIF or JPG file format. Almost all operating systems, (at least, these that
use a GUI, MS Windows, Linux, Unix, McIntosh Mac OS) provide the user with option of setting certain wallpaper.
There are some pre-installed wallpapers, or one may choose to load a third-party wallpaper. Dimensions of wallpapers
image should match screen resolution for better display quality. Common resolutions are:
low and medium (800X600, 1024X768, 1152X864)
high resolutions (1280X1024, 1600X1200 and greater)
There are some special designed wallpapers for dual monitor display, multi monitor display etc.
Wallpaper settings are:
centered
streched
tiled
Centered means that image is set in the middle of desktop; if the dimensions of image is less that screen resolution a predefined
color surrounds it;
Streched means that image dimensions are modified to match monitor resolution; under some circumstances this cam distort or lower
the image quality
Tiled means that image is repeating itself, much like tiles from the bathroom. This suits for pattern image digital wallpapers, building an
entire single image.
To set a wallpaper on your computer you should follow these steps:
Navigate to the wallpaper page
Click 'Right mouse button' somewhere on image
Choose and click the 'Set as Background' option.
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