In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating system, today we’re exploring how to set the desktop background (also known as “wallpaper”) on the popular Ubuntu distribution. Read it here

There are three ways. The first is to right-click on a blank part of the desktop and select “Change Desktop Background”. This gets you directly to the Wallpaper section. This is also accessible via the menus: System, Preferences, Appearance, Background. I will go into the third method a little later as it is initially slightly more complex, but I think it is more useful.