# What's the wallpaper on your digital devices? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2018, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422 "2018-06-20T02:52:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/1 "2018-06-20T02:52:46Z")
Home computer - [Death Star trench run](https://imgur.com/7j7NPLt) Work computer - [Tron light cycles](https://imgur.com/cr5NqMo) Phone - My 14 year old beagle, [Ginger, wants some popcorn](https://imgur.com/ag5xnsj) Tablet - [A cool cosmic space/time digital thing](https://imgur.com/Zg8KVoN) ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/2 "2018-06-20T02:54:59Z")
Phone is my cat Home puter is just black. Work puter is stupid corporate crap that came with the image. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/3 "2018-06-20T03:02:45Z")
Home and work desktop machines - original XP [Azul](https://wallpapersafari.com/w/ODlpqx/) wallpaper Phone - HTC [Middle Earth](http://stock-wallpapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/HTC-One-X-Stock-Wallpapers-2.jpg) (my name for it) wallpaper Tablet - Starfleet [LCARS](http://www.treknews.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/star-trek-lcars-iphone-6-wallpaper.jpg) wallpaper ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/4 "2018-06-20T03:18:17Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Tablet - Starfleet [LCARS](http://www.treknews.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/star-trek-lcars-iphone-6-wallpaper.jpg) wallpaper Interesting. That’s one of my watch faces. [![](http://www.watchfaceup.com/images/previews/vxp/41.png) ](http://www.watchfaceup.com/images/previews/vxp/41.png) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/5 "2018-06-20T03:36:30Z")
Cats, cats and more cats. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/6 "2018-06-20T03:36:47Z")
Work: I change it every week, usually something thematic to amuse students ([e.g.](https://media1.tenor.com/images/2441fe805892192565a15eab3d92e01b/tenor.gif?itemid=10822004)). Home: My lovely wife. Phone: Cats. Ipad: Penguins. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/7 "2018-06-20T05:30:53Z")
My laptop has a picture of a cloudy sky at sunset that my son took when he was about 8 years old or so. My phone has a photo of the Golden Gate Bridge that I took as we sailed beneath it on e cruise a couple years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/8 "2018-06-20T05:41:09Z")
Phone - a picture of my dog George Tablet - a different picture of my dog George Laptop - a picture of my son playing fiddle, from behind with his very long hair and a very cool design on the back of his shirt, the picture has be stylized to look like a painting. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/9 "2018-06-20T06:33:17Z")
My phone just has some generic green design. Anything else just interferes and distracts me. My PC changes regularly, I usually make them myself with image I like, which I convert to the right aspect ratio and resolution. It currently is a carousel of over a hundred images featuring pretty celebrities, mostly pro photoshoots but wearing casual clothing, very little implied nudey stuff. Here are [some safe-for-work samples](https://twitter.com/GuanoLad/statuses/970806131453870081). ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/10 "2018-06-20T07:01:24Z")
On my laptop i have a family potrait and on my phone i have a snapshot of my grandson taken at his birthday party last year for the lock screen and a snapshot of my grand daughter on the main screen ---
**Author:** ![kk\_fusion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kk_fusion/32/15276_2.png) [@kk\_fusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kk_fusion)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/11 "2018-06-20T08:38:42Z")
Work computers: standard Windows logo. Phone: default Firefox BG. Home computer: monochrome black (and no desktop icons either – I use a tiling WM). For some reason, that wallpaper thing has lost its novelty for me long ago. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/12 "2018-06-20T11:19:28Z")
I cycle through a set of pictures from the Juno mission. Currently[this one](https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA21972.jpg)on all screens ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/13 "2018-06-20T12:00:44Z")
Home and work computers - pictures of my granddaughter, because that’s what grandmothers do. Cheapie flip phone - a fire in our pellet stove - I was trying out the camera when I bought the phone. Tablet - whatever the default was - I never changed it. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/14 "2018-06-20T12:17:48Z")
Here at work, my wallpaper is a pic of the house on Anna Maria Island where we vacation each year. Eight and a half weeks away, but who’s counting? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/15 "2018-06-20T12:21:09Z")
My default wallpaper for everything is a pic I took of a mount of personal significance. One thing that bothered me about using it everywhere is that my e-reader falls back to it and keeps it there as it hibernates/turns off. So it took a while to get used to seeing something like this on a screen for a device that is “off”. E-ink is da bomb. My phone keeps wanting to rotate the background depending on phone orientation. No! If I gen’ed an image of exactly right size to fit the background, why are you rotating it??? ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/16 "2018-06-20T14:55:11Z")
Phone - Dark purplish lake sunset. Enough for some color pop, but dark enough so white icon lettering is clearly visible. Tablet - Spashy stock colors that differentiate users. Computer - Solid black ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/17 "2018-06-20T14:58:40Z")
Phones - whatever the default is iPads - whatever the default is Computers -apparently, what is called “solid gray pro ultra dark.” Basically, just a solid, dark gray. I do a lot of photo editing, so I don’t want anything distracting in the background. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/18 "2018-06-20T15:18:03Z")
I used to change wallpapers and lock screens, but now I mainly stick with the defaults. My laptop though is showing the global cloud density map that made the rounds a few years back: [http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2015/05/12/4233502.htm](http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2015/05/12/4233502.htm) That might just be windows 10 now remembering settings on my microsoft account though. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/19 "2018-06-20T15:19:52Z")
Home is this [Chicago skyline image](http://7-themes.com/6952309-chicago-skyline-at-night.html) Phone is some stock “black with a dark blue wave” image Work is default Win7 wallpaper. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422/20 "2018-06-20T16:01:32Z")
Phone is a picture of my kids from this past winter. I need to get a new one, I know. Home computer is a rotating slide show of snowflakes. Yes, it’s June. I love snowflakes and won’t be changing that one any time soon. Work computer is a rotating slide show of various waterfalls. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wallpaper-on-your-digital-devices/816422.md?page=2)