Download the Official Ubuntu TV Wallpaper

By Joey Sneddon, Published January 9, 2012

Mmm.

Despite all today’s news about Ubuntu’s latest extension into our lives (Ubuntu TV if you haven’t been paying attention) part of me is still left… wanting more.

And, as I can’t get Ubuntu TV itself to compile nicely, i’m happy to settle for looking at this: the Ubuntu TV default wallpaper.

Purple salad has never looked so tasty.

Via Owais Lone

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Georgi Karavasilev
I’ve always suspected that Joey will embrace the name “Purple Salad” sooner or later … :D

http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ Joey-Elijah Sneddon
I just couldn’t resist any longer ;)

http://twitter.com/el7r ™الـشـبـح
I didn’t like it
http://rubenverhack.be/ Ruben Verhack
I can’t help myself, but it reminds me of guitar hero: http://www.hightech-edge.com/wp-content/uploads/guitar-hero-3-screenshot-slash.jpg
Nicely done though
Anonymous
Tried it. Reverted to default wallpaper. I kinda like the purple haze theme, though I rotate to others.

Anonymous
Ha, I don’t know if you realized the Purple Haze reference, but it describes this wallpaper beautifully.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000678236470 Hans Heintze
I hope to see someting like this as default for precice or at least the precice login screen. The defualt ubuntu wallpaper has been something which I have found aestheticly pleasing, however i have felt that the uniform bluring has resulted in a lack of apperent depth. this does a very good job at adding depth to the background.
Anonymous
Not to crap on anyones work but I haven’t loved the default wall paper for a long time I much prefer the wall paper contest ones from the community they are all really awesome and interesting. That being said I have a picture of Talyor Momsen on my desktop :D

Georgi Karavasilev
Wanna compare stupid wallpapers? :D

Anonymous
Hahahaha well my one isnt stupid more extremely hot so I surrender to your superior stupid wallpapers

Georgi Karavasilev
Ahhh, OK :P Will behave myself and not post a wallpaper with HER, I promise :D

Bilal Akhtar
You try to drag Agnetha into every comment, don’t you?
Georgi Karavasilev
In almost every :D

Anonymous
You win.

Georgi Karavasilev
Dark magician girl powaaa :D

Anonymous
i like it !
Ryan Edwards
BIG YuGiOh fan here! I love her!
Ryan Edwards
BIG YuGiOh fan here! I love her!
http://www.twm-kd.com/ BigWhale
Wait, that’s Yu-Ghi-Oh? No wonder my son’s into it! :>
http://www.twm-kd.com/ BigWhale
Wait, that’s Yu-Ghi-Oh? No wonder my son’s into it! :>

http://www.facebook.com/people/Hamzah-Muneer/100002684990118 Hamzah Muneer
I bet this will be default in 12.04 and tbh it looks better than the previous default wallpapers (excluding 8.04/8.10)
http://claimid.com/el-bhm bhm
Yep, going blind.
http://twitter.com/ux92 uvazquez
The last default wallpaper I liked was “Hardy Heron”. I thought we would be back to the old orange style in Natty, but it seems I was wrong. Too bad.

Anonymous
I think orange should make a comeback too. ;) (not brown though…)

Anonymous
Orange you glad I agreed with you?
I’m sorry… ^ that joke wasn’t very punderful.

http://www.paul.sladen.org/ Paul Sladen
@stewieX:disqus Which is your favourite of the other wallpaper images shipped on the CD by default?

Anonymous
My favorite wallpaper that shipped with 11.10 was “Mount Snowdon, Wales”.

Anonymous
Intrepid Ibex was good too.

AJ
I like the identity Ubuntu has gained. Surprised that so many people seem to hate it with such vigor…

Anonymous
Not sure if everyone hates it or just wants to be not involved with Ubuntu, there’s far too many trolls to take the internets seriously. I stopped using Ubuntu when I realized there was better Linux distros. With that said, I still come on here for news from time to time.

Anonymous
so, what is better Linux distro?

Anonymous
Fedora + RPM Fusion + Livna has been great to me for the last year, seems more stable, secure and user friendly than Ubuntu, Debian and derivatives have been (mostly yum and selinux advantages).
The only thing Ubuntu has over Fedora is Jockey, but if you know what you need, installing akmod and kmod of a driver, with RPM Fusion installed, works just fine.
Of course I meant better in my opinion ;), I don’t expect everyone else to agree with me.

Anonymous
Im happy that you found a distro that suits you the best!
But I can’t help but thinking, how that is more secure and user-friendly?
stability really depends on a lot of things, so i won’t ague with that :)
Anonymous
To each their own as they say :)
As for the security: Fedora has a lot of precautions and rules, as a maintain of a few package, I can vouch that the standard are a little ridiculous but also rewarding in the end. SELinux is also included, which arguably helps security as well.
http://twitter.com/danizmax Daniel
so it seems you are not an avarage user…
believe me, if I had tons of time and wouldn’t be too lazy to bother with hacking this and that on my OS, I would not hastitate for a second to go back to gentoo
Anonymous
I was attempting to imply the opposite, I’ve never had to modify Fedora, except extra repo installation. In my experience, I find those patches and workarounds cause more issue than help due to lack of upstream review… though as I said, “in my experience”, so I’m sure I have my own bias and can’t speak for everyone.
Reynand Lopez
Mystro256 is correct, as for my experience, I never had to modify lots of things to Fedora myself. You just have to turn your computer on, and puff puff, Every works fine. And if you found a bug or two, just sleep for a while and an update would come, and all your worries would be gone ;)

Anonymous
Whichever suits your needs.
For some that is not Ubuntu.

Anonymous
Tis why I love Linux :)

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CMJYPSXLFHHWHISIEV5IF2XQ44 tora
Ubuntu just because of the overall default polish. Also the font rendering is amazing. Nothing comes close. Believe me, I’ve tried ‘em all ;-)
And Unity? Sucked in 11.04 but really cool in 11.10. Just replaced Mint on my Desktop.

http://twitter.com/DerekBonds Derek Bonds
That’s funny Tora. I had the identical experience. I didn’t like Unity is 11.04 so wanted to go back Gnome (home), went to Linux Mint for a few months…it was pretty good. Just installed 11.10 about 2 weeks ago to try pure Ubuntu and now I really like Unity. I’ve been using Ubuntu since 9.04 so a couple years. I’m comfortable with Linux, not an expert but I am a huge fan. I think that Unity is def slower than Gnome but sounds like that’s improved in Unity 5.0…looking forward to installing 12.04.
I’m not one of those OS basher’s I have an imac, windows 7 machine and a few Ubuntu laptops…so they all have pro’s and con’s. But I’m really digging the 11.10 social media Gwibber integration HUGE selling point for me.
Aside from the decrease in performance in Unity I think alot of it is people don’t like change. Especially because Ubuntu hasn’t changed in years.
Once I got used to it, I really like it better, better than Windows 7 and dare I say OSX Lion.
My wife is totally computer illiterate to the point she doesn’t know how to get pics on or off a computer. I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on her computer and after a 5 min review she was using it like a champ…a true testimony to Unity’s intuitive nature. I’ve actually installed on a buddy’s computer who had multiple Windows virus problems…even after paying a computershop to repair and reinstall and of course at first he had a hard time finding where files were downloaded at first but he’s been running it for a year and not a single phone call (I’m VERY surprised by this).
So in closing I think Canonical is on the right track with Unity (I know I’m probably the odd man out on this) a few things to work out such as performance (sounds fixed in Unity 5.0) so I’m looking forward to 12.04 in April.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CMJYPSXLFHHWHISIEV5IF2XQ44 tora
Ubuntu just because of the overall default polish. Also the font rendering is amazing. Nothing comes close. Believe me, I’ve tried ‘em all ;-)
And Unity? Sucked in 11.04 but really cool in 11.10. Just replaced Mint on my Desktop.

Dumitru Gheorghiu
I don’t know any other better distro. All are the same, using the same Gnome or KDE or whatever. What is the difference between Fedora Gnome and Other Gnome?
Ubuntu, at least, tries to do something different and tries to promote itself. And yes, it is better.

Anonymous
fully agreed. I switched from ubuntu to mint and what did I get? A better experience? something different? No
All I got was a terribly shit software centre and nothing else to speak of. You may as well use ubuntu, then just choose your DE (eg kde gnome-shell ect) at least your software centre won’t be a hopeless pile of crap (still has songbird in the recommended section).
http://twitter.com/ianliu88 ianliu88
The biggest difference between Fedora and Ubuntu is the package manager and packages itself: yum vs. apt; rpm vs. dpkg; rpm vs. deb. In my opinion, apt is way better than yum. I had a lot of pain using yum since I it had to load a lot of meta data before installing apps, even with fastmirror enabled. Apt maintains a cache and is way more responsive.

Anonymous
I can agree that yum is slow, I really don’t like the speed, but I love the integration with packagekit and the features it has.
Plus fedora is much closer to upstream, without all those workaround and patches that Ubuntu and Debian incorporate. All Fedora fixes go upstream, so I tends to get more review and bugs worked out. Fedora tends to be more stable for me and requires less esoteric knowledge to work.For example, using Ubuntu, there was a power workaround that was messing up my wifi on my home network and nowhere else. After applying another workaround, it made it work, but it took me months to fix it. Fedora on the other hand worked just find on any network. Sure, the issue was very specific and not very reproducible on every system, but I still like the Fedora patch/fix method better.
Ms. Polly
I like the pure Gnome Shell experience and look that Fedora offers, but I’m not willing to give up the quick downloading that Ubuntu/Debian offers to switch.
http://www.jusargumentandi.co.cc Jean
Fedora = Gnome
Gnome = Red Hat
That’s why Gnome team doesn’t accept any Ubuntu upstream.
Red Hat and Canonical are competitors, and most of Gnome team are Red Hat employees.
Anonymous
Are you serious? This isn’t political, if someone provide a free fix, they would be an idiot to avoid accepting them.
Sure Gnome has a Red Hat bias, but that’s only because Red Hat directly profits due to their choice to be very upstream.
Ubuntu (and Debian to a degree) tend to aim and direction, as a choice of prerogative. In other words, they get rejected due it not being desirable to the upstream goals. I’m not saying this is bad, different isn’t bad, sometimes it’s good. I just personally like how the upstream gnome works better, it’s a choice that doesn’t necessarily fit everyone.

Anonymous
To each their own, I won’t discredit you that, but I would like to point out that Fedora is supported by Red Hat, so I would assume there’s a lot more bias towards Red Hat promotion than Fedora. Plus Fedora has it’s own way of being different, i.e. more work upstream, but that’s a subjective example.

Anonymous
Who do you have in mind? People mostly hate Unity, but most Unity haters (or semi-haters like me, ha ha, I hate a few things, but like the rest ;) ) still use and don’t hate Ubuntu.

http://www.paul.sladen.org/ Paul Sladen
There’s Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu complete experiences available too! Please do get involved with the design process, it’s only possible to fix something when an issue is documented and understood. Can you outline specifically what you think could be done better in Unity?
(Taking your time to write here I think demonstrates that you care, and that’s appreciated).
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GE4EYP3QOQ246PLG2Y2DOD2NIQ Dr. Fly
I think the Unity hate will subside over time as people get used to it and improvements/bugfixes are added, similar to GNOME Shell.
I still remember not that long ago when people were ticked that Ubuntu’s trademark brown was going away in favor of purple…

Ms. Polly
I’ve found comfort with Ubuntu, Shell, and AWN dock at the bottom in windows dodge mode with some themes added. I’m one of those that still prefer the warm brown colors. Xubuntu is also still a good option too. Unity is okay, but i still think Gnome 2 or Shell with dock at bottom is much better. Unity’s launcher gets in the way – Shell and AWN on bottom gets me to my apps better. I also think it looks and behaves with apps better. As long as I can tweak it to my liking, I’m okay. If Unity becomes more configurable and more apps are integrated, I’ll jump back and take a look, but right now Unity doesn’t stack up to Gnome 2, Shell, or even XFCE at the moment, imho. I still love my tweaked Ubuntu though.

http://twitter.com/digitalbear11 Bear
if you like unity, you probably don’t praise it every chance you get, you just use it…if you don’t like unity…you probably grumble at everything written about unity…idk..people still do have a choice of what desktop environment to use…didn’t this website do a poll a while back that said most people use unity? maybe new ubuntu users, that subscribe to this website since it doesn’t poll all ubuntu users..but people don’t seem to mind it
Anonymous
Their design isn’t my personal preference, but only because I have to live with the DE I decide to use every day. I think Unity is very good, and Linux is so much better now than it was in 2009, partially because distributions like Ubuntu got more designers to become developers, and more developers to collaborate with designers.
KDE 4 was great, sure, but it’s nice that now we have several beautiful and effective takes on the desktop.
Even if it’s not perfectly my preference, I think I’d buy an Ubuntu TV, phone, or tablet, merely because the open options are very limited otherwise. Maybe webOS will become an open source favorite, who knows? Either way, I think it’s important that we support Unity, Ubuntu, and their strengths, even as GNOME and KDE users. Ubuntu is the Linux of the people, and I think it’s better to have something out there showing people the benefits of free software with an open development model.

AJ
I just hope the identity that is being shaped more and more with every release as continuity across all of the platforms that I hope Canonical pushes Ubuntu towards.
I want this distro to become a household name, genericized in a good way, with the ‘open development model’ you mentioned. Good phrase btw!
Would be a dream for me to work for them, the next 24 months is going to be exciting for the human beings using linux!

Amartya Datta Gupta
Dont like the wallpaper !! Could be a little darker.
Aside: Can anyone explain why, when i visit omgubuntu with firefox.. it says “registration closed” or something like that. It comes back when I click the omgubuntu logo.

http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ Joey-Elijah Sneddon
I’ll look into that. Is it recent ‘bug’ by any chance?

Anonymous
Yes, it happens to me too and it just started today.

Anonymous
I’ve messaged Ben. For now if you type in http://www.omg…. it’s fine. You only get the message if you omit the www. Thanks for the info.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActionParsnip ActionParsnip
Then make it dark with expose from imagemagic ;)
Anonymous
Since 11.10 I use the darkest background I can find (right now I have sth with Batman logo in the center, ha ha) so the Unity launcher is at least a little darker.
http://www.paul.sladen.org/ Paul Sladen
@google-e5b0a3c2613bbd3eb0d20baf1cc6269b:disqus I guess if people are “only” complaining about the wallpapers, then a huge amount has already been fixed in the day-to-day libre desktop experience!

Anonymous
I’ve always enjoyed the Ubuntu wallpaper offerings. I switch them frequently but I often end up with the default

http://www.paul.sladen.org/ Paul Sladen
Wonderful to hear it. Iain Farrell continues to put in lots of effort organising the Ubuntu community wallpaper competition before year release and ensuring that all of the designers and photographs who contribute their libre images get the chance to compete and be included in the CD collection.

syncdram syncdram
odd, looks just like the old wallpaper with the white dots from the login screen
http://twitter.com/howythegeek Howy
OMG!SourceCode!… I looked at the Ubuntu TV source, and it uses QML… :O
Not bad for a wallpaper, btw.
http://twitter.com/bisexcellent bisexcellent
I was hoping that this style of wallpaper would just last the 10.04-11.10 cycle and 12.04-13.10 would have a new style. It looks like that’s not going to happen now. :(

Anonymous
note: this is Ubuntu TV OS not Ubuntu desktop/server OS. we could still see a different design starting with 12.04.

http://twitter.com/RichieB07 RichieB07
The default wallpaper in Ubuntu usually hurts my eyes, but this one if very nice. The dots/grid really help tone down the purple a LOT. I just set this as default on my Windows computer lol.
Scott Myers
Compiled and installed. Works well, although obviously not feature complete. Very fast.
Joseph Glenn Hartley
I wonder which will be better. Google TV or Ubuntu TV?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ARSCVE6FMS5DJ5FUVD4XWYZZCQ Jah-Fou
If i watched Tron in ’82 with purple tinted glasses this would be cool now but it’s 2012 and Prince is not around anymore.

Please Canonical i am so done with purple my balls now get pink eye.
Hands up if you will use this as a wallpaper….anyone………anyone…………………………………
………………………………………………………………….anybody here

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GE4EYP3QOQ246PLG2Y2DOD2NIQ Dr. Fly
I will without a second thought!!!

http://panduaji.net Pandu Aji Wirawan
Nice wallpaper ;)
Anonymous
i love the purple/aubergine wallpapers. not as much of a fan of this variation, but i’m glad ubuntu’s not just another stupid blue distro. that crap is so ugly and boring.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GE4EYP3QOQ246PLG2Y2DOD2NIQ Dr. Fly
This is possibly one of the most awesome things I’ve ever put on my desktop!
I don’t care what kind of minor tweaking Canonical does to the default Ubuntu wallpaper for 12.04…this IS the default as far as I’m concerned, and nobody can tell me otherwise!
Anonymous
i tired of this purple-style backgrounds
Anonymous
i tired of this purple-style backgrounds
http://profiles.google.com/major.pipe Major _
Really? Is this even worth a post…?
http://profiles.google.com/major.pipe Major _
Really? Is this even worth a post…?

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