Background - Adding Beauty to Zeta

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yellowTAB has added a selection of backgrounds in various resolutions to Zeta. You will find more background at http://www.zeta-look.org

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Zeta lets you have different screen resolutions and color depths on the various workspaces, and you should have this in mind when selecting wallpapers.

Background - Adding Beauty to Zeta

Backgrounds let you dress up your desktop with the background images of your choice. You can use one of the background pictures that come with Zeta, or use one of your own.

In Zeta setting a background is more then just making your desktop look good! It's also a way to better memorize where your applications are running. This is important as Zeta lets you have up to 32 desktops. Each can be customized with it's own color or image.

The Preference application also lets you set a background image for each Tracker window (in Icon or Mini Icon mode; List View mode doesn't display background images).

The Backgrounds window looks like this:

The pop up above the right box lets you set the target (workspace or folder) that you're applying the settings to.

The two Workspaces commands apply the settings to all workspaces or to the current workspace. Default folder applies the settings to all Tracker folders; other folder... lets you choose a specific folder. or to a specific folder (Other). When you add a background to a specific folder, the name of the folder is added to the Folder: list (at the bottom of the menu) so you can retrieve the settings later.

To set a background color, choose None from the Image: popup and use the color control sliders to set the color you want.

A background image can be added in two ways: By clicking the pop-down menu Image:, and choose Other.... A dialog box appears and you can choose an image from the default Background folder or you can choose one of your own pictures.

An easier way to add you own background image, is simply to drag the image file itself onto the Preview box.

After adding the wanted image, you have to choose a placement option from the Placement: popup (the Center and Scale to Fit placements apply only to desktop backgrounds, not to folders). If you choose the Manual setting, the X: and Y: fields will display the coordinates of the image's origin (upper-left corner). To move the image, simply drag it into the Preview screen, or type in the X: and Y: fields.

The Icon label background box, if checked, applies the chosen color to the label boxes below desktop icons.

If it's unchecked, the label boxes are transparent. In either case, the label text color is either black or white-- whichever is more legible with the icon label color.

If you're setting a background color (as opposed to a background image), the Icon label background checkbox is disabled and the label backgrounds are transparent. Again, the icon label color is decided on the basis of legibility.

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