haiku/docs/userguide/en/preferences/prefs-backgrounds.html
Joachim Seemer e564a3c1f7 * Added more CSS control for menus, buttons, app names, shell commands, paths.
* Always wanting keyboard graphics for shortcuts, Jorge suggested simple borders
  for simplicity. Great idea! Added.
* Added Jorge's rounded boxes for note/warning/stop plus symbols.
* If anyone wants to fine tune esp. colours, go ahead. Jorge and I are both
  challenged in that department. :)
* A few small corrections and reformatting here and there.
* Excluded the topic "Installation" from the contents until it's further along.


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<a href="../preferences.html">Preferences</a>
&#160;&#160;&#160;
Previous: <a href="prefs-appearance.html">Appearance</a>
&#160;&#160;&#160;
Next: <a href="prefs-datatranslations.html">DataTranslations</a>
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<h1><img src="../../images/prefs-images/backgrounds-icon_64.png" alt="backgrounds-icon_64.png"
width="64" height="64" />Backgrounds</h1>
<table summary="quickinfo" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>Deskbar:</td><td style="width:15px;"></td><td><span class="menu">Preferences</span></td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:</td><td></td><td><span class="path">/boot/beos/preferences/Backgrounds</span></td></tr>
<tr><td>Settings:</td><td></td><td><span class="path">~/config/settings/system/app_server/workspaces</span><br />
<span class="path">~/config/settings/Backgrounds settings</span> - Stores the panel's window position.</td></tr>
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<p>You can set a color or an image as background for every folder and the Desktop for every workspace.</p>
<p><br /></p>
<img src="../../images/prefs-images/backgrounds.png" alt="backgrounds.png" width="539" height="282" />
<p>The top drop-down menu specifies if your changes are applied to the current workspace, all workspaces, a specific folder or as default for every new folder.</p>
<p>Below that you can assign an image or select <span class="menu">None</span> if you want simply a colored background.</p>
<p>If you are using an image, you have to decide on the placement:</p>
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<tr><td><span class="menu">Manual</span></td><td>&#160;</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><span class="menu">Center</span></td><td>&#160;</td><td>centers the picture in the middle of the screen.</td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="menu">Scale to fit</span></td><td>&#160;</td><td>enlarges the picture with no regard to its aspect ratio until it fills the screen.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Tile</span></td><td>&#160;</td><td>fills the screen by repeating the picture.</td></tr>
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<p>If you are using an image you can activate <span class="menu">Icon label outline</span> which will put an thin contour around an icon's label.</p>
<p>If an icon label's actual text is black or white depends on 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 <a href="../workspaces.html#applet">Workspaces applet</a>, which ignores images as backgrounds.</p>
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<tr><td><span class="button">Revert</span></td><td>&#160;</td><td>brings back the settings that were active when you started the Backgrounds preferences.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="button">Apply</span></td><td>&#160;</td><td>sets your changes.</td></tr>
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<a href="../preferences.html">Preferences</a>
&#160;&#160;&#160;
Previous: <a href="prefs-appearance.html">Appearance</a>
&#160;&#160;&#160;
Next: <a href="prefs-datatranslations.html">DataTranslations</a>
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