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The terms '''wallpaper''', '''desktop picture''' and '''desktop background''' refer to an image used as a background on a computer screen, usually for the [[desktop metaphor|desktop]] of a [[graphical user interface]]. "Wallpaper" is the term used in [[Microsoft Windows]], whilebefore Windows 7 (where it is called the Desktop "Background"), while [[Mac OS X]] calls it a "desktop background" (prior to [[Mac OS X]]previously, the term '''desktop pattern''' was used to refer to a small pattern that was repeated to fill the screen).

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