Pictures in backgrounds

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Piriponzolo
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Hy to everyone! How is it possible to copy in the file "backgrounds"(usr share backgrounds) other pictures to be used as wallpapers? Thank you.

Magic Banana

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You can select a background in your home folder. Writing in /usr/share/backgrounds requires administrative permissions. If have such permission and really want to copy a file to /usr/share/backgrounds, open a terminal in the folder containing the file ("back.jpg" in my example) and execute:
$ sudo cp back.jpg /usr/share/backgrounds

Piriponzolo
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Hi, Magic Banana. Thank you, but the response in the terminal is cp: impossible to execute stat of "onda.jpg": File or directory does not exist. What should I do?

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Either the file is not named "onda.jpg" (notice that the case, lower or upper, matters) or you did not open the folder with "onda.jpg" in the terminal (I do not use the default desktop environment but a right click on the folder certainly provides a contextual menu that should propose something like "Open in terminal").