When I go to change background I can select system pictures.
How do I add to those pictures, e.g. pick from my computer?
I see that pictures are in /usr/share/backgrounds
But I don't have privs to paste an image in their (i am an admin btw)
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Michael Durrant
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In Ubuntu https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/gs-change-wallpaper.html.en – graham Nov 23 '19 at 12:52
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https://askubuntu.com/a/10943/739431 – PRATAP Nov 23 '19 at 13:19
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To add your own pictures to the dialog that you are revealing in the screen print, add the files to the folder .local/share/backgrounds in your home folder. .local can by default not be seen, because all files and folders where the name starts with a . are hidden folders. Set the option to reveal hidden files in your file manager (usually, you can also set that with the shortcut Ctrl+h). Create the backgrounds folder if it does not exist. Background images in the user's .local/share/backgrounds folder will be available to the current user only.
If you want the pictures to be available for all users of the system, then indeed copy them to /usr/share/backgrounds. Of course, because this is a system folder, you need to have root privileges in order to be able to copy files into that directory.
vanadium
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This has caught me more than once.
Go to the pictures you want in the file explorer and right click and choose
'Set As Wallpaper'
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