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- | ====== Preferences ====== | ||
- | You can start the Desktop | + | ====== Preferences - xfdesktop ====== |
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+ | To access '' | ||
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===== Background ===== | ===== Background ===== | ||
- | <figure "Background Tab"> | + | <figure "Customizing the desktop background"> |
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- | </ | + | The **Background** tab of the Desktop settings window contains different options for configuring the your desktop background. You can set a single image or multiple images as your desktop background, or you can use a color scheme. If you set an image as your wallpaper but don't want it to fill the entire screen, you can combine it with a color scheme that fills in the rest of the background. The default option is to use a wallpaper image, the list of images available is found in the **Wallpaper for my desktop** section, where thumbnails for images found in the specified folder are displayed. |
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+ | If you tick the **Apply to all workspaces** option, the wallpaper will be applied to all the workspaces on your computer, rather than just the one the window is currently active in. If you want to set different backgrounds to specific workspaces, you can untick this option and move the Desktop settings window to the desired workspace. | ||
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+ | ==== Images ==== | ||
+ | To set or change the wallpaper image, simply left-click on an image in the **Wallpaper for [...]** section. You can change the location the application looks for images in using the {gui> | ||
+ | <figure " | ||
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+ | If a location contains multiple images, '' | ||
+ | * in seconds: | ||
+ | * in minutes: | ||
+ | * in hours: | ||
+ | * at start up | ||
+ | * every hour | ||
+ | * every day | ||
+ | * chronologically | ||
+ | If you choose one of the first three options, you can set a custom time interval relative to the option selected. The **chronologically** option will sort the pictures according to their filenames and cycles through them all equally over a period of one day. The {gui> | ||
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+ | ==== Style ==== | ||
+ | The {gui> | ||
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+ | ^ Style ^ Effect ^ | ||
+ | | None |Doesn' | ||
+ | | Centered | ||
+ | | Tiled | Fills the display with tiled images, only effective if the image is smaller than the display. | | ||
+ | | Stretched | ||
+ | | Scaled | ||
+ | | Zoomed | ||
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+ | <figure "Image style options"> | ||
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+ | ==== Color ==== | ||
+ | Background colors can be used instead of an image or they can be combined with an image if it is smaller than the display or semi-transparent. In the case of a semi-transparent image, the color options can be used to easily change the gradient / hue of the wallpaper. The options available for the color are as follows: | ||
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+ | ^ Color ^ Effect ^ | ||
+ | | Solid color | The first color picker button to the right of the drop-down menu is active. Clicking that will bring up a color picker dialog that allows you to select a single color to fill the desktop. | | ||
+ | | Horizontal gradient | ||
+ | | Vertical gradient | ||
+ | | Transparent | ||
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+ | <figure | ||
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+ | [[|Back To Top]] | ||
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===== Menus ===== | ===== Menus ===== | ||
+ | '' | ||
+ | <figure "Menus tab"> | ||
- | <figure "Menus Tab"> | + | ==== Desktop Menu ==== |
- | {{: | + | The **Include applications menu on desktop right click** option dictates whether a menu entry will be shown at the bottom of the list providing quick access to all installed applications. Ticking the **Show application icons in menu** option will show icons next to the labels in the pop-up applications menu. |
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- | ==== Appearance ==== | + | <figure " |
- | The "Icon type" dropping list allows you to set the behavior of the desktop icons. There are three options: " | + | The menu's configuration file '' |
- | If desktop icons are enabled, you can control the size of the icon itself (in pixels) | + | <note tip> |
- | ==== Default Icons ==== | + | ==== Window List Menu ==== |
- | The checkboxes allow you to show or hide special icons on the desktop, | + | Middle-clicking on the desktop shows a list of all opened windows ordered by workspace, it also allows |
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+ | If none of the submenus are checked, the pop-up menu will look like the following example: | ||
+ | <figure "Plain text window list menu"> | ||
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+ | Checking **Show application | ||
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+ | Checking **Show workspace names in list** and **Use submenus for the windows in each workspace** will show each workspace as a separate entry with their respective windows hidden inside | ||
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+ | Check the **Show sticky windows only in active workspace** option if you only want to see those windows in the active workspace instead | ||
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+ | [[|Back To Top]] | ||
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- | Home stands for your home folder, that is to say, $HOME. Filesystem stands for the root of your file system, also known as /. Trash stands for your trash folder, and Removable devices represents floppy drives, USB drives and keys, external hard drives, optical discs, etc. | ||
===== Icons ===== | ===== Icons ===== | ||
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- | <figure " | + | <figure " |
- | {{: | + | {{:xfce:xfdesktop: |
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+ | ==== Appearance ==== | ||
+ | You can either choose to have an icon-free desktop by selecting **None** from the {gui> | ||
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+ | ? Minimised application icons | ||
+ | ! This option displays minimised windows as icons on your desktop. These icons can be freely arranged and offer window controls similar to the drop-down menu when clicking on the application' | ||
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+ | <figure " | ||
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+ | <note tip> | ||
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+ | ==== File/ | ||
+ | This option displays files, folders, and launchers as icons on your desktop that can be freely arranged, named, copied and moved, modelled to have a similar look and feel as a regular file manager. | ||
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+ | <figure " | ||
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+ | <note tip>'' | ||
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+ | You can edit the size of the icons, the orientation (where they are placed on the desktop by default), the font size used to display the icon text and the size of their tooltips that appear when hovering over the icons, as well as enabling showing hidden items, single click to activate items, and the option to show thumbnails on the desktop. | ||
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+ | ==== Default Icons ==== | ||
+ | You can optionally choose to show or hide special icons on your desktop, like shortcuts to your home folder or filesystem, the wastebasket or removable drives. These include disks and drives, network | ||
+ | shares and other devices. Clicking those icons on the desktop will open a new file manager window displaying the contents of that particular path. | ||
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