I don't use a tiling window manager, but I never see my desktop either. The last time I remember serious thought about desktop appearance was setting it to a s

I don't use a tiling window manager, but I never see my desktop either. The last time I remember serious thought about desktop appearance was setting it to a solid colour to save RAM ... in the late 1990s. I just minimised a bunch of windows to discover that the latest Kubuntu has hidden a rather pretty alien landscape painting there.