Submissions are now open for wallpapers to be included in Rocky Linux 10 “Red Quartz”. Please post your submissions in this thread. Ensure that your submission includes the full resolutions in a compressed archive in addition to a preview in your post. All submissions must be licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). By submitting here you are licensing is thusly.
The deadline for submissions is Monday, March 3rd, 2025
After the submission period, eligible submissions will be voted on by the community.
General Theme
Each Rocky release has a codename, and a corresponding general theme. For Rocky 10: Red Quartz, the theme should be generally posses a red-like color scheme.
Required Resolutions for Normal Submissions
We request a high resolution to make things simpler for users to choose which they’d like and how they want it to display on their system (e.g. “wide”, “center”, others).
Resolution must not fall below: 3072x3072
Example resolutions: 4800x3600, 4096x3072, 3440x3440
Content Guidelines
Allowed:
Anything related to nature, mountains, rocks, and the like (generally fitting into the “rocky” idea)
Anything related to the release codename (eg. Red Quartz)
Anything minimalist/abstract is allowed
References to the release number (like 9, and so on) are allowed
Complementary colors should be allowed in the image within reason
Contrasting colors should be allowed in the image within reason
Photography + Manipulation should be allowed within reason - Random photos from image searches will not be accepted
Highly Encouraged: Day and Night (light / dark) versions.
Discouraged:
Avoid using the Rocky logo, unless it fits with an abstract/minimalist idea for the background
Plain backdrops with the rocky logo are not permitted
Prohibited:
Any AI generated artwork
Extras Package
If a wallpaper does not make it to the main package, is simply Rocky inspired, or was simply submitted as an “extra” background, it has the opportunity to be placed into the rocky-backgrounds-extras package. The requirements are more relaxed for the extra backgrounds.
Minimum Resolutions for Extra Backgrounds
For general submissions, we request a high resolution to make things simpler, that way the user is able to choose a wallpaper without having to choose “the right one” for their monitor size. This requirement is more relaxed for the extra backgrounds package. If a submitter wishes not to use the highest resolution but opts to make multiple resolutions instead, they should use the below list as a general guideline:
Minimum Required Resolutions:
16:9 (1920x1080)
16:10 (1920x1200)
5:4 (2048x1536)
4:3 (1280x1024)
Additional (encouraged) allowed resolutions:
3440x1440
2560x1600
2560x1440
2560x1080
1800x1440
Portrait mode versions of the above are optional
The placeholders in this commit shows an example of using the minimum resolutions.
There are already some great submissions!
I stumbled by chance over this call for wallpapers, but the funny thing is, I’m currently working on a Blender short film featuring a red quartz/crystal! As its already quite late here and I reinstalled my system last week, I will try to make some good shots tomorrow - just in time for the deadline - that fit more in the style of a wallpaper. Something like this if you find it fitting (need to re-render in correct size and post-process of course), and I want to go for some different shots, just that you got an idea:
As announced yesterday, here are some shots I took.
Happy to hear feedback or to double down on an idea.
Maybe an abstract wallpaper fits better but wanted to participate nevertheless.
I know I’m late but this is a favorite wallpaper theme of mine, quartz/crystals, in my BSD and Linux Wallpapers. I used to work in Advertising so here is the brand thinking behind the wallpaper.
Rocky Linux as a brand/logo represents pinnacle (technology) and stability. The Wallpaper should bring forth those ideas in an easily accessible expression as a mountain commands your view. It should set expectations quickly and leave you to work without distraction.
I’ve done abstract wallpapers before but I believe Rocky Linux needed to be more “real” as perhaps the users of this distro want a more “real” return investing in this distro vs hobby or distro-hopping alternatives.
In contrast to Alma whose logo is a pentagonal shaped flowering color-wheel with female attributes, I took the opposite tact and went with sharpness all around, simple color scheme with male attributes.
The image is a sharpened, re-aspected, and retouched Unsplash from Etienne Bösiger
The Swiss mountain pictured most likely actually has red quartz in it
The black bar is the same aspect as the logo, over the peak as in the logo (in rough ratio)
The pictured mountain stands roughly in replacement of the abstract brand logo (Logo suggestion) conveying subtle yet sharp and meaningful.
The small pixel and thumbnail versions do not come across the same as tested max 4800x3600 on a premium monitor, the details of the mountain really inspire awe.
The night version is actually tuned down to be more comfortable on the eyes in areas of luminance, specularity, and contrast.
Since I’m late and don’t want to give them away for nothing it’s my license like all my artwork, but if you would like to accept them for use let me know and I will CC them for you. Plus, the actual realism of it may put in into extras, but I think it brings another perspective in contrast to the other entries that may appeal to those who do climb mountains or want something that definitely isn’t AI “looking”.
Thanks,
Elias C. Griffin
Founder - Quadhelion Engineering
COO - Cipherlace
CVSS-SIG
I know this is after the deadline, but I’m submitting these anyway, as I didn’t see any other photographs submitted. The photos (and a README) are submitted here: RockyBackgroundsRobison.tgz - Google Drive
The deadline for submissions is Monday, March 3rd, 2025 
