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Desktop Background Color Changing

September 15, 2009 8:26:36 PM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums

Hello,

I'm looking for a way to make my background color stay in place on my desktop when I change it in the Display Properties window of my computer.  I'm using Windowblinds and usually I always have to change the background color as I tend to use a lot of different wallpapers that just don't go with the Windowblinds skin colors that are the default for the skin.  I cannot find anywhere in Windowblinds to alter this setting so that it will stay put.  Right now I always have to change it back when I reboot my computer which is a real nuisance.  Is there some setting I am unaware of somewhere that I am able to change the desktop background color permanently rather than temporarily within Windowblinds?  Windowblinds already seems to have integrated into my Desktop Properties panel on my computer, yet changing it there is not staying in place, will only last till a reboot.  Please help, this is getting really irritating and I been all over the application and cannot find any setting for it.  Thanks for your assistance.

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xinh2
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Reply #1 September 15, 2009 8:49:05 PM
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This has always annoyed me as well. The only way I know of to "fix" it is to change the desktop color in the Window Blind itself, meaning you'd need SkinStudio to do it.

If anyone has further information or a better way of doing it than this I'd also love to hear about it!

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Reply #2 September 15, 2009 8:55:04 PM
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Which version of WB are you using, if WB6, you will need to do this once for every skin when you load it, Colours tab, Change system colours, System colour: Background, set it to the colour you want. This will change the background colour setting in the skin so once done for a skin it will be the colour you have set every time you load that skin.

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Reply #3 September 15, 2009 9:20:58 PM
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Using WB7 which doesn't have the "Change System Colours" option in it anywhere, I did load up SkinStudio and play around with it a bit till I found the background color option for the particular skin I'm using, but once again, although that works, it's a lot of hassle to have to do that to change it everytime I change my background or skin lol.  Hopefully there's an easier way in WB7 that I'm just not finding, or maybe they didn't get the option into the program yet?  At least SKS does it for now, but anyone else know any other easier softer ways?

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Reply #4 September 15, 2009 9:34:40 PM
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From your start menu, all programs, stardock, objectdesktop, open WB not WB7, this will be WB 7 with old interface with the colours tab.

 

Hopefully there's an easier way in WB7 that I'm just not finding, or maybe they didn't get the option into the program yet?

System colours are not there yet but i don't think they will change much when added.

 

anyone else know any other easier softer ways?

Not easier, but it sounds like you use some walls smaller than your screen res so have them centered? You can make a image that matches your screen res the colour you want, then one by one paste walls into center of it and save them.

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Reply #5 September 15, 2009 9:56:23 PM
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Quoting Cavan1,
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Not easier, but it sounds like you use some walls smaller than your screen res so have them centered? You can make a image that matches your screen res the colour you want, then one by one paste walls into center of it and save them.

I'd wager money that isn't the issue   The issue is the color of the font on the desktop, which is set by windows based on the desktop background color.  So, if you use a, let's say, white background wallpaper but the skin is set to use a black desktop your icon labels will be white on white.

As I said above, the only way I've found, and I run into this all the time as I am a frequent wallpaper and blind changer, is to modify the blinds. I've even gone so far as to make copies of blinds so that I have a version in black and in white desktop color so I can use the one I need with any particular wallpaper.

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