An embodiment of the invention discloses a desktop switch controlling method and a user terminal. The desktop switch controlling method includes the steps of using the user terminal to receive a fingerprint sequence i which includes N fingerprints, is used for triggering desktop picture switching, and is input by a user when a desktop picture switching operation interface is displayed; searching out a desktop picture which is bound to the fingerprint sequence i from M desktop pictures bound to a fingerprint sequence; finding a desktop picture q which is bound to the fingerprint sequence i among the M desktop pictures; switching the desktop picture q into a current desktop picture of the user terminal when the current desktop picture of the user terminal is different from the desktop picture q. According to the technical scheme of the desktop switch controlling method and the user terminal, desktop pictures can be switched more easily and flexibly.