Old Fashioned Tiled Wallpaper

Here is the final product! Enjoy!

Here's a screenshot of the finished product on my desktop...

Bravo...! nice work "" \°v°/"" +

as retro as it gets!

Thanks for all the positive feedback! If you like retro backgrounds here are
a couple other cool links I found:

http://xwinman.org/textures/
http://xwinman.org/tiles/

enjoy!
grimlok

So talented! +324325464224642624

hahahaha

Here is a transparent one so that you can use the desktop gradient, or any
solid color for background color of the graphic!

Does GIMP have a nifty image wrapping tool like Photoshop does?

Got a new goody for you all:

You can create a few similar patterns using LibreOffice productivity suite.

Grimlok's revenge.

SGI pattern backdrop.

Here is my current setup and backdrop:

Here are a couple more backdrops!

What they look like:

Example, trisquel_wave.png

And here's another treat:

Here's a red tile from Xerox Rooms for X Windows.

http://toastytech.com/guis/xrms.html

A blue tile from Xerox Rooms.

More tiles...

Here's a Solaris backdrop or two. Taken from here.

http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/cde15solaris9

Why not to use a normal wallpaper? why to use a retro wallpaper and GUI?

I think I finally got the blue Solaris shark backdrop right.

Xerox Globalview for X. A crisp backdrop tile.

http://toastytech.com/guis/gvx.html

Diamond shaped Sun logo from Web Archives.

Solaris wavy line backdrop. This is from a Wikimedia Commons screenshot.

*EDIT*

I made another one, this time more like it.

*EDIT #2*

I made one more. I'm not sure which is the right size. I guess 32x80 pixels.

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This is from Taj Mahal, a window grille. Inverted, it looks like a Rorschach test. The other one is a green marble slab from Wikipedia Irix article. Easy on the eyes.

I had this capture I've made from a error of video playing in VLC.

It maybe should be modified but this is intresting as a pattern.

Another patterns coming for jpeg reading errors that might inspire you.

I like the 8 bit spirit, but it is sometimes too monotonous.

I wanted to continue the experimentation with the jpg errors.

The principle is simple :
You can modify the colours in gimp with any tool you want with a jpeg noise (hue-saturation, levels, color balance...)
Save your work.
Open it in gThumb
Make a zoom in full screen and make the best scaling you can get
Make a screen copy
Your image is ready

Put some colour in your life ! Enjoy.

A reed mat backdrop from Geoworks (around 1990--1992).

A tile that I found here.

http://zensites.net/fvwm/guide/fvwm-guide-icons.tar.bz2

http://zensites.net/fvwm/guide/index.html

Nice one. I wonder if it's hard to do.
I suppose it depends on the pattern complexity.

I'd try by creating a small pattern, than cropping the image at random. in theory it should work.