General
Zeta comes with a selection of decors preinstalled, some real eyecandies.
More decors can be downloaded from http://www.zeta-looks.org
(from this site you can also download wallpapers, icons and system
sounds).
Changes in the Decor are done in real-time.

Separator Style: This entry lets you set the appearence
of the lines that separate the different groups of items in the
menus.
Triggers are the underlined letters in the pulldown menus, and
represents the keyboard shortcuts. If you are not only using the
Mouse to execute commands (menu options), you should enable Always
Show Triggers.
Menu ZSnake:

Fonts
Appearence lets you set the system fonts and the size of
the font caches. There are three types of system fonts: Plain, bold
and fixed-spaced. Individual fonts have additional pop-ups that
let you choose among style options available for that font. You
can set the size, from 9 to 18 points, with the Size popup. The
maximum font size is limited to 18 points. Other wise the entries
would cause the menus to be too wide, or the system would have to
cut off the ends of longer words / terms in the menu. The higher
screen resolution you have, the smaller
the text in menus will appear on your screen. To make the text easier
to read, simply change the Font Size.
First of all, you can change the font used in menus. You can choose
between all fonts installed, not only the ones that came with the
operating system.
<screenshot Fonts>
You can change the default fonts for practical purposes, such as
making text on buttons easier to read, or for purely aesthetic reasons
such as giving your desktop more character. Zeta comes with many
different fonts, and each individual font is comprised of different
characteristics and such as size and style. The size of a font is
measured in points.

Screen font cache size: Determines how much RAM is allocated to
hold font bitmaps. A large cache means faster screen redraws, and
less RAM available for applications. Printing font cache size: Determines
how much RAM is allocated to printer fonts. A large cache means
faster printing, but less RAM available for applications. You need
a Printer Font Cache only if you print to HP LaserJet-compatible
printers.
A tutorial on how to add extra font
sets.
Triggers are the underlined letters in the pulldown menus, and
represents the keyboard shortcuts. If you are not only using the
Mouse to execute commands (menu options), you should enable Always
Show Triggers.
Shortcut Keys are the last two entries in this Preference
applications, and are closely related to the triggers. Either Ctrl
or Alt has to be enabled, and you can't choose both.
If you are used to using shortcuts in Windows, we guess that you
will work best with Ctrl enabled. If you are used to using
shortcuts in MacOS on the other hand, we recommend you to enable
Alt as Shortcut Key.
Colors
Zeta comes with the possibility change most of the default color
settings, and most of them can be changed with an interactive RGB
slider.
By clicking the pop-down menu Color, you can choose what part of
the graphical user interface you would like to change the color
on:
<screenshot>
You change the color by mixing the the R:, G: and B: channels.
You can see the color result on the right side of the window:
<screenshot>
Pressing the Defaults button will restore the default Appearence
settings for all the things that you have customized.
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