Custom Wallpaper

Enabling a custom wallpaper

1. Open the Manager window (double-click the tray icon, or launch WorkTop from the Start menu).
2. Find the desktop you want to customize and click the three-dot menu on its card.
3. Click Custom wallpaper to enable it.
4. Open Windows Settings (make sure that you are switched to the afformentioned desktop) and change your wallpaper as you normally would. WorkTop will capture the new wallpaper and save it for that desktop.

From now on, whenever you switch to this desktop, WorkTop will apply its saved wallpaper. When you switch away, your regular system wallpaper is restored.

Changing the wallpaper later

To update a desktop's wallpaper, just switch to that desktop and change your wallpaper through Windows Settings. WorkTop detects the change and updates the saved wallpaper automatically. There is no need to re-enable the feature.

Removing a custom wallpaper

To stop using a custom wallpaper for a desktop, open the three-dot menu on its card and click Custom wallpaper again to toggle it off. The desktop will revert to using your regular system wallpaper.

How it works

WorkTop tracks two things: a base wallpaper (your regular system wallpaper, shared by all desktops without a custom one) and individual wallpaper paths for desktops that have the feature enabled.

When you switch desktops, WorkTop checks whether the target desktop has a custom wallpaper. If it does, that wallpaper is applied. If not, the base wallpaper is restored. This all happens automatically as part of the desktop switch.

Wallpaper with virtual desktop linking

When Virtual desktop linking is turned on, Settings also shows WorkTop manages wallpapers, which controls whether WorkTop or Windows sets the background.

With WorkTop manages wallpapers turned on, WorkTop applies each desktop's wallpaper on every switch, and the background Windows keeps for the linked virtual desktop is overwritten by it. With it turned off, Windows manages the background of each virtual desktop and a desktop's custom wallpaper has no effect. To give a virtual desktop its own background in that mode, open Task View, right-click the virtual desktop and click Choose background. A background set through Windows Settings applies to every virtual desktop.

While linking is on, assign a desktop's wallpaper by clicking Choose wallpaper... on its card in the Manager and picking an image file. Changing the background through Windows Settings does not assign it to the desktop.