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A computer screen showing a background wallpaper photo of the Palace of Versailles. A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device.
A screensaver (or screen saver) is a computer program that blanks the display screen or fills it with moving images or patterns when the computer has been idle for a designated time. The original purpose of screensavers was to prevent phosphor burn-in on CRT or plasma computer monitors (hence the name). [ 1 ]
The free software and open-source Unix-like operating systems running the X Window System (such as Linux and FreeBSD) use XScreenSaver almost exclusively. [citation needed] On those systems, there are several packages: one for the screen-saving and locking framework, and two or more for the display modes, divided somewhat arbitrarily.
1. Sign in to Desktop Gold. 2. Click the Settings button. 3. Click Personalization. 4. Click the Backgrounds tab. 5. Under the "Choose Library," select either On my PC or From pixabay. 6. Click an image to set it as your background.
After Dark is a series of computer screensaver software introduced by Berkeley Systems in 1989 for the Apple Macintosh, and in 1991 for Microsoft Windows. [3] [4]Following the original, additional editions included More After Dark, Before Dark, and editions themed around licensed properties such as Star Trek, The Simpsons, Looney Tunes, Marvel, and Disney characters.
Screen Savers or screensaver or variation, may refer to: Screensaver, computer programs intended to preserve CRT monitors from "burn-in" GNOME Screensaver, GNOME Project's screen blanking tool; Google Pack Screensaver, a terminal inactivity screen photo displayer included in the Google Pack
Google Trends Screensaver: A screensaver for macOS displaying the latest Google Trends in a customizable, colorful grid. Chrome Remote Desktop: A desktop and browser application enabling users to remotely access another Windows, Mac, or Linux system.
Windows Spotlight is a feature included with Windows 10 and Windows 11 which downloads images and advertisements from Bing and displays them as background wallpapers on the lock screen. In 2017, Microsoft began adding location information for many of the photographs.