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So random, but does anyone know how to take the default desktop images off of a machine. I imagine this applies to any GNOME system (though the wallpaper management on RHEL 5.something reminds me a lot more of KDE, and it has a lot of the KDE applications...), but I'd like to get the default wallpaper off so I can use it at home. The RHEL machine is one of my work machines, but I like the wallpaper and can't find it elsewhere.

Do you know what the filename is? If so, you can run "find / -name filename" to see where it is on the disk.

Not sure about RHEL, but on Ubuntu (with GNOME 2) they're under /usr/share/backgrounds. You've probably got about even odds that RHEL puts them in the same place.

I checked and it is /usr/share/backgrounds.

Oh, and FWIW as Steel pointed out, find is your friend! But you don't even need to know the filename; I found them on my Ubuntu box via:
(going on the assumption that they were most likely in the /usr hierarchy somewhere, and most likely stored as .jpg files)

That and locate.

You don't have to change directories; you can search /usr from your current dir.


Locate searches a database to find files, which makes it quicker then find, and it's a little more forgiving.

Thanks all. I didn't get a chance to do anything more than a quick run of find while checking email, but I'll definitely try again tomorrow. Also, for those wondering, it's the boats .svg file. I have a nice color gradient behind it and it's tiled across the desktop. Quite nice.