<p>The top menu specifies if your changes are applied to the current workspace only, all workspaces, a specific folder or as default for every new folder.</p>
<p>Below that you can assign an image or select <spanclass="menu">None</span> if you want simply a colored background. Images can also be drag&dropped onto the preview to the left.</p>
<p>If you are using an image, you have to decide on the placement:</p>
<tr><td><spanclass="menu">Manual</span></td><td></td><td>lets you specify the coordinates. You can drag the picture around in the preview to the left or enter <i>X</i> and <i>Y</i> manually.</td></tr>
<tr><td><spanclass="menu">Center</span></td><td></td><td>centers the picture in the middle of the screen.</td></tr>
<tr><tdclass="onelinetop"><spanclass="menu">Scale to fit</span></td><td></td><td>enlarges the picture with no regard to its aspect ratio until it fills the screen.</td></tr>
<tr><td><spanclass="menu">Tile</span></td><td></td><td>fills the screen by repeating the picture.</td></tr>
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<p>Activating <spanclass="menu">Icon label outline</span> puts a thin contour around icon labels.</p>
<p>Whether an icon label's actual text is black or white depends on the setting of the color picker. A dark color sets the text to white, a light color to black. So, if you assign a very bright image to the background, you should also set the color picker to a bright color in order to have icon labels readable in black. (Or use the outline option above.)<br/>
The selected color is also reflected in the <ahref="../desktop-applets/workspaces.html">Workspaces applet</a>, which ignores images as backgrounds.</p>
<tr><td><spanclass="button">Revert</span></td><td></td><td>brings back the settings that were active when you started the Backgrounds preferences.</td></tr>
<tr><td><spanclass="button">Apply</span></td><td></td><td>sets your changes.</td></tr>
