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Customize Desktop

Personalize your desktop environment

PreviousMouse & TouchpadNextSet up Visual Style

Last updated 1 year ago

You can transform the look and feel of your desktop environment in elementary OS, making it more visually appealing and aligning it with your personal preferences.

Whether it's changing the wallpaper to something that resonates with you or selecting a theme and accent color that suits your style, desktop customization allows you to create a more personalized computing experience.

To customize you desktop, and navigate to the Desktop section. For example, you can do the following:

Also, you can be interested in the following settings related to the desktop customization that can be made outside the Desktop section:

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Set up visual style for system components
Change desktop wallpaper
Adjust the text size all over the interface
Configure Dock & Panel
Assign tasks to the display corners and set up the maximized windows behavior
📖Gestures
📖Hot Corners
📖Display Filters
open the System Settings