Wallpapers Facts
Wallpaper, desktop picture and desktop background is an image used as a background of a graphical user interface on a computer screen or mobile communications device. On a computer it is usually for the desktop, while for a mobile phone
it is usually the background for the 'home' or 'idle' screen. Though
most devices comes with a default picture, users can usually change it
to files of their choosing.
Wallpaper's website was launched in 2004 as an arm of the magazine. Since then the website has grown exponentially
in line with the rise of online media. Rather than publishing
reformatted material from the magazine, it covers breaking news across design, interior, art, architecture, fashion, travel, and technology. It also publishes exclusive online features, interviews, blogs from global events by Wallpaper editors, and a wide range of visual galleries. It claims on average over 504,000 unique users per month.
Aside from producing the monthly magazine and website, Wallpaper also publishes global city guide books with Phaidon Press.
There are 80 different cities currently available, and more are being
published later in the year. The city guides are published in English
and there are also editions available in French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Japanese.
In 2007, to celebrate its 100th issue and reflect its multi-platform
status, the logo's asterisk acquired a cursor (pictured at right) in
place of one of its arms.
In August 2008, Wallpaper launched the Wallpaper Selects website in collaboration with contemporary online art retailer Eyestorm. Wallpaper Selects sells a selection of limited-edition photographs from the Wallpaper archive, signed by the photographer.
In Mac OS X
Mac OS X
has built-in support, via the Desktop & Screen Saver panel in its
System Preferences, for cycling through a folder collection of images on
a timed interval or when logging in or waking from sleep.
Additionally, OS X has the native ability to run a screen saver
on the desktop; in this configuration, the screen saver appears beneath
the desktop icons in place of the system wallpaper. However, OS X does
not come with a built-in interface to do this; it must be done through Terminal commands or various third-party applications.
In Windows 7
Similarly, Windows 7
can also be set to cycle through pictures from a folder at regular
intervals. If fully animated backgrounds are wanted, third party
software would need to be installed.
In GNOME
GNOME 2 also can be set to cycle through pictures from a folder at regular intervals, similarly to Windows 7.
In Enlightenment
Enlightenment v17 supports image sequences, animated and interactive desktop backgrounds in its default configuration
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