Wallpapers add personality and styleMatching wallpapers to GTK, QT, or Gnome shell themes can be a time-consuming task as many times these have to be resized or modified.
Wonderwall is an excellent tool that can help you easily find that wallpaper that you've always been looking for.
Wonderwall is a powerful desktop wallpaper manager for Unity and GNOME, that allows you to browse, download and apply wallpapers from a large collection of wallpapers.
About Wonderwall
The user interface is so sharp and powerful that it makes managing your image collection very simple and straightforward.
The program provides high resolution images that are suitable for modern widescreen monitors.
The features included are:
- Search for wallpaper using colors, tags, categories, resolution, popularity, views,
- classification, etc. with powerful filter tools.
- Cropped / scaled wallpaper downloaded to fit your screen resolution.
- Browse the world's largest collection of 4k and Ultra HD online wallpapers.
- Categorize downloaded wallpapers.
- Browse the world's largest collection of 4k and Ultra HD online wallpapers.
However, is still in development, so certain features still have bugs, but are not critical enough to negatively affect the functionality of the program.
There are more than 20 categories of wallpapers to choose from.; Animals, cars, nature, movies, etc., to name a few.
The program interface conforms to a Mac OS-like window and not the native GTK appearance. By default, popular wallpapers are loaded when the program starts.
This is one of the striking features of Wonderwall, is that it allows you to list all the wallpapers based on the choice of color
How to install Wonderwall on Ubuntu and derivatives?
For those who are interested in being able to install this tool on their system They can do so by following the instructions we share below.
Wonderwall is available through Snap packages, so they must have the support to install these types of applications on their system.
Note: Ubuntu versions 18.04 and 18.10 already have this support natively, previous versions and derivatives should verify and in their respective case add the support.
The command to install Wonderwall on our system is:
sudo snap install wonderwall
Basic use of Wonderwall
To start using this application we will have to look for its launcher in our application menu to execute it.
In case the program exits with an error message, we would have to grant it some permissions.
We are going to go to the overview of all applications and here we right click on the Wonderwall application, then we are going to click on "Show details" and select "Permissions", then activate "Access files in your home folder" and start the program again.
Wonderwall's title bar is scattered with buttons and a search box. On the left is the Offline Library and Settings, a search box in the center along with the forward / back button, and some cool customization options on the right.
To set the wallpaper as the desktop background, simply click on the image and select the Download option.
After downloading, we are going to click on the image and this time choose to set the wallpaper to change the background of your desktop.
You can also use the search box to get more refined results based on your search criteria.
To access a category of wallpapers, simply select the Categories icon (next to search in the title bar) and choose one of the many possible lists.