How To Change Background On A Chromebook

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When using a Chromebook, you may find that your desktop isn't used in quite the aforementioned way every bit it is on a Windows or MacOS laptop. While other systems let y'all use the desktop as a dumping ground for all your documents and application shortcuts, Chrome'due south desktop is clean, articulate, and used for only one thing: your wallpaper. As such, your wallpaper is more important than ever, and here'south how to set i you actually similar on your Chromebook.

How to modify a Chromebook'due south wallpaper from the Wallpaper Picker

Google's got quite a few great wallpaper collections going, and you tin access them on any Chromebook with ease:

Right-click (or long-press on a touchscreen Chromebook or tablet) on your desktop.

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Select Ready wallpaper.

Select a category from the left side bill of fare of the Wallpaper Picker.
Tap your desired wallpaper to set it.

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To prepare a topic wallpaper that changes daily, select Daily Refresh, the first item in most sections of the Wallpaper Picker.
Select either the Center Cropped or Center formatting options for your wallpaper.

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Once your wallpaper is fix to your liking, but close the Wallpaper Picker window; you're done!

How to change a Chromebook'due south wallpaper from the Files app

If Google's wallpaper options aren't everything you lot hoped for, you tin can set your own wallpaper quite hands in the Files app, pulling the prototype from the Downloads folder or in your attached Google Drive storage.

Locate the photo you wish to use for your wallpaper in the Files app.
Right-click (or long-press on a touchscreen Chromebook or tablet) your desired wallpaper photo.
Select Set equally wallpaper.

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The paradigm volition exist set co-ordinate to your current Heart or Centre Cropped setting. Yous tin can use .png and .jpg images for wallpapers on your Chromebook.

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Ara Wagoner was a staff writer at Android Fundamental. She themes phones and pokes YouTube Music with a stick. When she'due south non writing well-nigh cases, Chromebooks, or customization, she's wandering around Walt Disney World. If you see her without headphones, RUN. You tin follow her on Twitter at @arawagco.