How to change wallpaper on chromebook to your own background

Q: How do I customize my Chromebook home screen?

Right-click anywhere on your Chromebooks desktop and select Set wallpaper from the menu that appears. Click on one of Googles categories to see a selection of preset images, or click the My Images option to choose an image from your own local storage.

Q: How do you put a background on your Google Chrome home screen?

On the New Tab page, click the Customize button in the bottom-right corner..

With people spending large parts of their day in front of their laptops, desktop backgrounds serve the important purpose of creating a productive atmosphere. Having a refreshing picture to greet you every time you turn on your laptop can really set you off in the right direction. Today, we are going to look at the steps you can follow to customize your desktop background on Chrome OS.

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Surprise Me
Setting a Custom Wallpaper
How do I customize my Chromebook home screen?
How do you set a custom wallpaper on a Chromebook 2022?
How do you put a background on your Google Chrome home screen?

Chrome OS has an inbuilt wallpaper gallery with a whole lot of interesting wallpapers. To access this gallery, right click (by manually pressing the right click button or a two finger tap on the touch-pad) on an empty space in the desktop. A drop down menu will appear.

From the dropdown menu, click on Set wallpaper. A wallpaper gallery should appear on screen.

As you can see on the top panel of this gallery, the wallpapers are sorted into various categories. You can click on any one of these images to set it as a wallpaper. Chrome OS will download the high resolution image and automatically set the selected image as the wallpaper.

Surprise Me

On the bottom right corner of the gallery, there is a Surprise Me check-box. Surprise Me is a feature of Chrome OS that automatically changes your desktop background at regular intervals by choosing an image from the gallery at random. Hence, each time you open your Chromebook, you can hope to be greeted by a beautiful wallpaper.

Setting a Custom Wallpaper

Chrome OS also has the option of choosing the wallpaper that you want for yourself outside of it’s wallpaper gallery. You can do this by clicking on Custom from the top shelf of the gallery.

Note : You will only be able to navigate to Custom if Surprise Me is unchecked.

Click on the box with the + sign in the center. A popup window will appear.

On this popup window, click on Choose File. The Files app will open and you will have to navigate to the location of the image that you want to set as wallpaper. Once the image is selected, you can now choose the position of your wallpaper. You can try out all three options from the dropdown menu and see the changes to your background in real time.

Warning : One thing to keep in mind is that this wallpaper appears on the Sign-In Screen i.e before you even enter your password. Hence, the wallpaper can be seen by anybody who switches on your Chromebook. You might want to be careful about that.

That’s it. Go ahead and find yourself an awesome wallpaper that makes you want to spend all that time in front of your Chromebook.

Nishant is a tech-enthusiast, and keeps experimenting with new apps and tweaks on his Chromebook and Android smartphone. Innovative user-experience developments fascinate him. Apart from keeping a keen eye out for updates in the tech industry, Nishant is interested in Philosophy and Creative Writing.

How do I customize my Chromebook home screen?

Right-click anywhere on your Chromebook's desktop and select Set wallpaper from the menu that appears. Click on one of Google's categories to see a selection of preset images, or click the My Images option to choose an image from your own local storage.

How do you set a custom wallpaper on a Chromebook 2022?

Right-click on the image you want to set as your wallpaper (on some Chromebooks you'll have to hold the ALT key to right-click.) Choose the Set as wallpaper option in the menu.