On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:08:39AM +0200, Ioannis Vranos wrote: > Each release of GNOME comes with some default backgrounds. Why are they > not included in Ubuntu? > > Is there any easy way to get those backgrounds in Ubuntu 8.10? Not sure about 8.10, but it'll hardly hurt to try typing sudo apt-get install gnome-backgrounds and find out.