Chrome OS isn’t probably the most option-packed working system round, however there are some issues you are able to do to make your Chromebook’s desktop look and work the way in which you need.

Prepared?

Customise your Chromebook’s wallpaper

First, let’s deal with your desktop’s primary look:

• Proper-click wherever in your Chromebook’s desktop and choose Set wallpaper from the menu that seems.
• Click on on one in every of Google’s classes to see a choice of preset photographs, or click on the My Photographs possibility to decide on a picture from your personal native storage.
• If you need your wallpaper to alter to a brand new picture on daily basis, click on the Change Day by day button that’s obtainable on the prime of any of Google’s class pages. (That possibility, sadly, isn’t at the moment obtainable with your personal photographs.)

Customise your browser’s background

You too can personalize the web page that comes up each time you open a brand new tab in your browser:

• Open a brand new tab in Chrome and click on the Customise Chrome button (or the pencil icon) within the browser’s decrease proper nook.

• Choose Background to decide on a picture from Google’s assortment or Add from gadget to choose a picture from your personal native storage, then observe the prompts to search out and ensure the picture you need.
• Choose Colour and theme to alter the look of the border of your browser and its background. You may select from a variety of preset themes, or click on on the circle with the dropper icon, and you’ll select customized colours.

Customise your Chromebook’s shelf

Final however not least, take management of the Chrome OS shelf — the dock-like row of shortcuts on the backside of your display. Begin by choosing precisely what icons seem in that space:

• Open your app drawer (by clicking the circle icon within the lower-left nook of the display after which clicking the upward-facing arrow on the partial drawer that seems). Proper-click any merchandise within the record and choose Pin to shelf.

• If you wish to add an internet site, open the positioning, click on the three-dot menu icon in Chrome’s higher proper nook, after which choose Extra instruments, adopted by Create shortcut.

If you need the positioning to open in an app-like window, with out the standard browser parts on prime, click on the Open as window possibility within the Create shortcut? pop-up window that seems. Then click on the blue Create button.

• Drag and drop any of the icons within the shelf to alter their place.
• Have you ever determined that you just don’t need the icon in your shelf in any case? Proper-click on the icon and choose Unpin.

And one closing pair of potentialities: If you need your shelf to look on the left or proper aspect of your display as a substitute of on the backside, right-click wherever inside it, choose Shelf place, then choose Left or Proper. And if you need your shelf to stay hidden by default and seem solely once you mouse over it, right-click the shelf and choose the Autohide shelf possibility.

Replace Might twenty seventh, 2022, 9:30AM ET: This text was initially printed on October twelfth, 2019, and has been up to date to account for slight adjustments within the OS.