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<a href="preferences.html">Preferences</a>
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Previous: <a href="prefs-appearance.html">Appearance</a>
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Next: <a href="prefs-datatranslations.html">DataTranslations</a>
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<p>You can set a color or an image as background for every folder and the Desktop for every workspace.
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<img src="prefs-images/backgrounds.png" alt="backgrounds.png" width="539" height="282">
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<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 <i>None</i> if you want simply a colored background.
</p><p>If you are using an image, you have to decide on the placement:
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<tr><td><i>Manual</i></td><td>&nbsp;</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><i>Center</i></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>centers the picture in the middle of the screen.</td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><i>Scale to fit</i></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>enlarges the picture with no regard to its aspect ratio until it fills the screen.</td></tr>
<tr><td><i>Tile</i></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>fills the screen by repeating the picture.</td></tr>
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</p><p>If you are using an image you can activate <i>Icon label outline</i> 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.
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<tr><td><i>Revert</i></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>brings back the settings that were active when you started the Backgrounds preferences.</td></tr>
<tr><td><i>Apply</i></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>sets your changes.</td></tr>
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<a href="preferences.html">Preferences</a>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Previous: <a href="prefs-appearance.html">Appearance</a>
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Next: <a href="prefs-datatranslations.html">DataTranslations</a>
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