Editing Wallpaper (computing) (section)

{{Short description|Decorative background on electronic devices}}
[[File:Computer monitor screen image simulated.jpg|thumb|A computer screen showing a background wallpaper photo of the [[Palace of Versailles]]]]A '''wallpaper''' or '''background''' (also known as a '''desktop background''', '''desktop picture''' or '''desktop image''' on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a [[graphical user interface]] on the screen of a [[computer]], [[smartphone]] or other electronic device. On a computer, wallpapers are generally used on the [[desktop metaphor|desktop]], while on a [[mobile phone]] they serve as the background for the ''home screen''. Though most devices include a default background image, modern devices usually allow users to manually change the background image.

The term "[[wallpaper]]" was used in [[Microsoft Windows]] before Windows XP (In Windows XP and later, it is called the "desktop background"). Meanwhile, [[macOS]] refers to it as "desktop picture". On older systems that allowed small repeated patterns to be set as background images, the term '''desktop pattern''' was used.