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    <desc>Set your favourite picture as your desktop background/wallpaper.</desc>

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      <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
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      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
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      <mal:name>David Lodge</mal:name>
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      <mal:years>2017</mal:years>
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      <mal:name>Zander Brown</mal:name>
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      <mal:name>Bruce Cowan</mal:name>
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<title>Make the current picture your desktop background</title>
<p>To set the picture that you are currently viewing as the background image on your desktop, click <gui style="menuitem">Set as Wallpaper</gui>.</p>

<p>This will immediately change the background to the picture you're viewing. You will then be asked if you would like to modify the picture's appearance using the <gui>background</gui> preferences window. If you click <gui>Hide</gui>, the message will disappear.</p>
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