Chapter 3.2.5 Desktop
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Desktop is an application to change the desktop background, the appearance of icons, and even desktop slideshows. 

Usage
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The :guilabel:`Background` tab has settings for desktop background. To change the desktop background you can either type the path of the file you can type in :guilabel:`Wallpaper image file` or use the :guilabel:`Browse` button to bring up a dialog to choose which the desktop.

.. image:: desktop-open-file.png

The drop down menu :guilabel:`Wallpaper mode` lets you change how the image you select for a wallpaper is made to fit on the screen. If you want an image to have multiple copies of a smaller image select tile image from the drop down. If you do not want an image and just a solid color select fill with background color only. To change the background color if you select that press the button to the right of :guilabel:`Select background color`. To have the image oriented based on metadata check the :guilabel:`Transform image based on EXIF data` checkbox. To use a different wallpaper on each monitor check the :guilabel:`Individual wallpaper for each monitor`. If your wallpaper looks stretched and you don't want it to you can select :menuselection:`Center on the screen`. This is also useful if your multimonitor setup has the wallpaper split across monitors awkwardly and you want the same wallpaper twice.

.. image:: desktop.png

The :guilabel:`General` tab has settings for text on desktop icons and text colors and icon sizes. The drop down menu :guilabel:`Icon size` lets you choose a different size of desktop icons you can choose a size that looks good on your screen. The box  :guilabel:`Select text color` brings up a widget to pick the color on desktop icons and files. The field :guilabel:`Select shadow color` changes the shadow on the shadow around the icon. To change the margins change the fields for :guilabel:`Minimum item margins` field for different coordinates. To make the margins always the same number of pixels check the :guilabel:`Lock` checkbox.

.. image:: desktop-general.png

The box labeled :guilabel:`Select font` lets you choose which font and size information from a dialog box. On the left is the :guilabel:`Font` for which font to select on on the bottom or type the name on top. The middle lets you choose the :guilabel:`Font style` of the font on your desktop. On the far right is a choice for the :guilabel:`Size` of your font which you can select from the menu. To have your text of your font underlined check the :guilabel:`Underline` checkbox. To change what languages your fonts can support choose your language in the :guilabel:`Writing System` drop down menu. To preview how the text will appear look in the :guilabel:`Sample` box.

.. image:: desktop-font.png

The :guilabel:`Slide Show` tab shows settings for slide show of changing your wallpaper automatically like a slide show. The checkbox :guilabel:`Enable Slide Show` enables the slide show that auto changes your wallpaper. The field :guilabel:`Wallpaper image folder` changes the path to find the different pictures for the slideshow or to find a folder press the :guilabel:`Browse` button. To change how long it takes for the slideshow of the desktop background to change change the fields in :guilabel:`Interval` fields for changing how fast the slideshow changes. To randomize the order of the slide show check the :guilabel:`Randomize the slide show` checkbox.

.. image:: slideshow-desktop.png

The :guilabel:`Advanced` tab has settings for default desktop icons or included. To show or hide any of the default desktop icons check/uncheck the checkboxes for: :guilabel:`Home`, :guilabel:`Trash`, :guilabel:`Computer`, or :guilabel:`Network`.

.. image:: desktop-advanced.png

To quit Desktop press the :kbd:`Escape` key.

Version
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Lubuntu ships with 1.1.0 of Desktop.

How to Launch
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To launch Desktop from the menu :menuselection:`Preferences --> LXQt settings --> Desktop`, from LXQt Configuration Center press the desktop button to launch it, or run

.. code:: 

   pcmanfm-qt --desktop-pref=general
  
from the command line. Another way to launch this is to right click on the desktop and select :menuselection:`Desktop Preferences`. The desktop icon for Desktop Preferences is a gray rectangle with a small hole missing.