backgrounds and themes Centos server with gui

[ron7000]

• I nstalled CentOS 7.6 and chose server with gui
• I registered with federoa EPEL and now have all of the following installed (much I did manually)
  

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     f22-backgrounds-base-21.91.0-1.el7.noarch
     f22-backgrounds-mate-21.91.0-1.el7.noarch
     f22-backgrounds-21.91.0-1.el7.noarch
     gnome-backgrounds-3.28.0-1.el7.noarch
     f22-backgrounds-kde-21.91.0-1.el7.noarch
     f22-backgrounds-gnome-21.91.0-1.el7.noarch
     f22-backgrounds-xfce-21.91.0-1.el7.noarch
     mate-backgrounds-1.16.0-1.el7.noarch
     adwaita-icon-theme-3.28.0-1.el7.noarch
     
     oxygen-icon-theme-4.10.5-2.el7.noarch
     gnome-icon-theme-symbolic-3.12.0-2.el7.noarch
     gnome-shell-extension-user-theme-3.28.1-5.el7.noarch
     adwaita-gtk2-theme-3.28-2.el7.x86_64
     adwaita-cursor-theme-3.28.0-1.el7.noarch
     plymouth-system-theme-0.8.9-0.31.20140113.el7.centos.x86_64
     sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8-3.el7.noarch
     gnome-icon-theme-extras-3.12.0-1.el7.noarch
     gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0-1.el7.noarch
     gnome-themes-standard-3.28-2.el7.x86_64
     hicolor-icon-theme-0.12-7.el7.noarch
     plymouth-theme-charge-0.8.9-0.31.20140113.el7.centos.x86_64
  

• in /usr/share/backgrounds seems to be where most of everything now is

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  /usr/share/backgrounds/:
  7lines-bottom.png
  7lines-top.png
  day.jpg
  default.jpg
  default.png
  default.xml
  f22/
  gnome/
  images/
  mate/
  morning.jpg
  night.jpg
  xfce/
  

When logged in all I know is right-click on desktop and choose Change Background.
I can then choose either Background or Lock Screen.
And under Background there is Wallpapers, Pictures, Colors.
How do I get some oh those are nice pics or wallpapers in there to select from?
Or is there a better way?
I'm somewhat content on just having GNOME working as the window thing for all users, don't want kde or xcfe except for any good pics they may have.
thanks.

[lightman47]

When you choose "Pictures" you get to choose pics from your Pictures folder. I save my grandchildren's pictures there - so that they can be backgrounds on my machines.

[ron7000]

are you referring to putting picture under $HOME/Pictures ?

if possible I am sort of looking for a global way to dump basic background pics so all users can see them via simplest method possible: right-click desktop change background. This would be in a work type environment, where some users are not computer savvy... what is $HOME...

so the pic has to be under $HOME/ and not $HOME/Pictures/. Why do they even organize your HOME folder with Pictures and Music/ and Downloads if they (gnome) isn't going to make use of it... this sucks.