{"id":13961,"date":"2022-01-18T15:16:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T15:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/?p=13961"},"modified":"2022-01-18T15:17:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T15:17:26","slug":"how-to-change-google-chrome-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/centos\/how-to-change-google-chrome-background\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Google Chrome Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Chrome is among one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/centos\/top-5-web-browsers-2021\/\">top web browsers<\/a> based on privacy,simplicity, speed, and some other features. When you launch Google Chrome, by default it opens with a plain white background which appears quite dull. However, you can change the default background make it more vibrant and alive. Google Chrome offers a variety of customization settings to suit your needs which includes changing the background, choosing a startup page, changing the language of your browser, and much more. This post explains how to change the background of Google Chrome browser.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note: <\/strong>The steps shown here have been performed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\/?platform=linux\">Google Chrome<\/a> browser installed on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. You can visit this <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/ubuntu\/how-to-install-google-chrome-on-ubuntu-20-04-lts\/\">post<\/a> to install Google Chrome on Ubuntu if you don\u2019t already have it in your system.<\/p>\n<h2>Changing Google Chrome Background<\/h2>\n<p>1. Launch Google Chrome in your system. In the Ubuntu OS, you can launch it either through the Activities menu or through the command line using the command below:<\/p>\n<pre>$ google-chrome<\/pre>\n<p>2. In the Google Chrome browser, open the new tab by using the <strong>Ctrl+t<\/strong> keyboard shortcut.<\/p>\n<p>3. On the lower right corner of your new tab, click <strong>Customize Chrome<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"880\" height=\"518\" class=\"wp-image-13962\" src=\"http:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-307.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-307.png 880w, https:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-307-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-307-768x452.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4. It will open the following window on your browser. From the left panel, select <strong>Background<\/strong>. Then on the right panel, you will find different categories for Google Chrome background. Each category contains a number of images from which you can choose any based on your likings. You will see the<strong> Classic Chrome <\/strong>option selected which is the default background for Google Chrome.<\/p>\n<p>To choose a background for your Google Chrome browser, simply click on a category. If you do not like any background from the list, you can upload your own image by clicking the <strong>Upload from device<\/strong> option. Then click <strong>Done<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"641\" height=\"418\" class=\"wp-image-13963\" src=\"http:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-308.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-308.png 641w, https:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-308-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5. Now it will display all the images from the selected category. Select an image from the category you want to set as background. You will also see a <strong>Refresh daily<\/strong> option at the top of this window. If you enable this option, Google Chrome will daily change the background from the category you have selected. Click <strong>Done<\/strong> to apply the changes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1183\" height=\"730\" class=\"wp-image-13964\" src=\"http:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-309.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-309.png 1183w, https:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-309-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-309-1024x632.png 1024w, https:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-309-768x474.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1183px) 100vw, 1183px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now the new background will be applied to your Google Chrome browser.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"884\" height=\"506\" class=\"wp-image-13965\" src=\"http:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-310.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-310.png 884w, https:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-310-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-310-768x440.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 884px) 100vw, 884px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>6. You can also choose a color theme for your browser. From the left panel of the customization window, select <strong>Color and theme<\/strong>. Then choose any color theme from the list of several color themes. Once selected, click <strong>Done<\/strong> to apply and save the changes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"632\" height=\"409\" class=\"wp-image-13966\" src=\"http:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-311.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-311.png 632w, https:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-311-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now you will see the new color theme applied to your browser.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"885\" height=\"477\" class=\"wp-image-13967\" src=\"http:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-312.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-312.png 885w, https:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-312-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-312-768x414.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s post, you learned how to change the boring white background of the Google Chrome browser and make it more vibrant and alive by adding a background image and theme to it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Chrome is among one of the top web browsers based on privacy,simplicity, speed, and some other features. When you launch Google Chrome, by default it opens with&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,5,83,165,2],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-13961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centos","category-debian","category-mint","category-opensuse","category-red-hat","category-ubuntu","tag-google-chrome-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}