Abstract: Method for filling the screen 2 of a mobile terminal 1 with a background image, which is at least temporarily present in a memory of the terminal 1, whereby a selection mode is present, in which several background images are imaged on the screen 2 as thumbnail-sized patterns 6 and are available for selection, whereby the screen 2 that is presented to the user in the selection mode has a first optically separated screen zone, the “selection zone” 4, whereby the user has the ability to select from among a number of patterns 6 that are imaged in the selection zone 4, whereby this selection leads directly to filling the entire screen background with the corresponding background image.