Customizing your desktop is one of the great pleasures of computer ownership. While most of the Chromebook user experience is controlled by Google, you can easily change your desktop wallpaper to suit your mood, personality, or the weather.
Why Change Your Chromebook Wallpaper?
Chromebooks are the spiritual successors to netbooks and provide a budget-friendly way to get online. While they were first imagined as cheap hardware to support a browser, modern Chromebooks support slick Linux interfaces, and you can even install Flatpak packages on a Chromebook.
But ChromeOS is made and distributed by Google, and even minor UX tweaks are controlled by the company. One element that you can change is your ChromeOS wallpaper, and it's easy to use cool wallpapers on a Chromebook.
Wallpapers can make your Chromebook more visually appealing, or help it conform to your aesthetic—transforming a generic background into an extension of your personality.
Change Your Desktop Wallpaper on Chromebook
Before you change your Chromebook wallpaper, you need to find something you can live with, and at which you want to look every time you minimize Google Chrome. Depending on your Chromebook's display, you'll either want high-definition wallpapers or even some gorgeous 8K wallpapers.
Save your selection of wallpapers to the Downloads directory or create a dedicated folder to store them.
Locate the image you want to set as your desktop wallpaper, then right-click, and choose Set as Wallpaper.
Another way to change the background image on your Chromebook is with the Wallpaper app. The quickest way to access this is to right-click on an empty section of your desktop, then click Set Wallpaper.
When the Wallpaper app opens you can select your wallpaper background images by clicking My Images, or choose from one of Google's curated selections. These include Native American Artists, LGBTQ Artists, Togetherness, Solid Colors, Art, and more.
Not all images will be present on your Chromebook. If they are not, Google will automatically download your chosen image and set it as your wallpaper.
It's Easy to Set Custom Wallpaper on a Chromebook
Google makes it easy to set wallpaper on ChromeOS and provides some nice ones of its own. If these aren't to your liking, and you can't find anything you want online, consider creating your own epic work of art.