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A computer screen showing a background wallpaper photo of the Palace of Versailles A wallpaper from fractal. 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.
The border option adds a one-pixel border, which can be useful when it is important to distinguish image from background. Here is the same picture with and without a border. [[File:Flag of Japan.svg|border|30px|White flag containing solid red circle]] [[File:Flag of Japan.svg|30px|White flag containing solid red circle]] This generates " ".
Image:BlankMap-Europe-v5.png – White background, black borders, blue sea. National Image:Italy template.png – Italian regions, 25% rescaling factor suggested.
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Wallpapers can come plain as "lining paper" to help cover uneven surfaces and minor wall defects, "textured", plain with a regular repeating pattern design, or with a single non-repeating large design carried over a set of sheets. The smallest wallpaper rectangle that can be tiled to form the whole pattern is known as the pattern repeat.
The horizontal borders between two colors generate "fringe effects" on the Apple II. In the lower left image, drawing a blue star on a green background causes the Apple II to add black, white and orange pixels at and near the horizontal boundaries between the green and blue.
Windows 7 introduces a desktop slideshow feature that periodically changes the desktop wallpaper based on a user-defined interval; the change is accompanied by a smooth fade transition with a duration that can be customized via the Windows Registry. [9] The desktop slideshow feature supports local images and images obtained via RSS. [10] [11] [12]