The Default Wallpapers for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Revealed

Just a few days after the wallpaper competition, Ubuntu Artwork team updated the wallpapers package (through proposed repository) for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, revealing the default wallpapers.

As previous releases, the new default wallpaper is a purple background with mascot (raccoon this time) in center. Instead of using straight origami lines, the new wallpaper uses curved-crease origami in background which looks great.

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As well, there are a light variant designed for Dark Desktop style, and another one for dimmed screen.

As before, all the three wallpapers are 4K images in PNG format with 3840 x 2160 resolution. And, they are free and open-source images licensed as CC BY-SA 4.0 or CC BY 4.0.

Besides the default wallpapers, there are also top 5 images from each of the categories from wallpaper competition. They are a total of 21 wallpaper images, as some of them include light/dark variants, that will be included in the final 26.04 .iso images.

The images are in PNG, JPG, or WEBP formats with 4K resolution (3840 x 2160). Also, they are free for personal use, sharing, and modification under CC BY-SA 4.0 or CC BY 4.0 license.

Download Ubuntu 26.04 Wallpapers

For non-Ubuntu 26.04 users who want to get these wallpapers, simply go to the launchpad build page via the link below:

Scroll down, then either select download the source tarball (e.g., ubuntu-wallpapers_26.04.1.orig.tar.gz), then extract to get all Ubuntu wallpapers from version 9.10 to 26.04.

Or, download the binary package “ubuntu-wallpapers”, extract (its .deb package) and get all 26.04 only wallpapers from usr/share/backgrounds (the sub-directory of extracted folder).

Source: UbuntuHandbook