Post by Kevin McAleavey on Aug 13, 2010 21:43:35 GMT -5
We've increased the number of wallpapers which come with KNOS, and there's a few neat tricks if you want to customize the desktop in KNOS. Changes made though are not saved across sessions, but if you want to customize your desktop each time you run KNOS, it's pretty fast and painless.
To change the default desktop appearance, all you have to do is right click anywhere on the background wallpaper. Select "change desktop background." After a few seconds, a "Desktop Appearance" dialog will appear but it will remain blank for quite a few seconds longer. The reason for this is that it has to load thumbnails of our 70+ wallpapers for you to choose from, and that takes a little time. Simply click on any wallpaper that appeals to you and the existing default will be replaced with that one. If you happen to have another image elsewhere that you want to use, just drag it into the window with the other wallpapers and KNOS will gladly put that up for you instead. There's a button that will allow you to select "tiled, zoom, etc" to make the image fit your screen. Note though that if you remove the location where you copied that wallpaper from, then KNOS will revert to the previous wallpaper should the new one not be there anymore.
On the tab to the left of that one, you can select from several other "themes" to further customize the look of KNOS. You can even hit the "Customize" button and mix and match icons, window borders and controls for your own custom look. Feel free to play, KNOS will always default to the original next time you boot, and you can always go back and choose something else if you'd like.
Another thing you can do to customize KNOS is that if you right click on any blank area in the top and bottom menu/task bars, you can select "Properties" for another set of selections which will allow you to color the bars themselves, make them transparent, or even choose to autohide them similar to the option in Windows. When in autohide mode, just move your mouse to the bottom or the top to make them appear when you need them. Gives you more screen real estate if you want it.
Please feel free to play with KNOS ... as always, you can't break anything and should you manage to do so somehow, just reboot and whatever happened? Never happened.
To change the default desktop appearance, all you have to do is right click anywhere on the background wallpaper. Select "change desktop background." After a few seconds, a "Desktop Appearance" dialog will appear but it will remain blank for quite a few seconds longer. The reason for this is that it has to load thumbnails of our 70+ wallpapers for you to choose from, and that takes a little time. Simply click on any wallpaper that appeals to you and the existing default will be replaced with that one. If you happen to have another image elsewhere that you want to use, just drag it into the window with the other wallpapers and KNOS will gladly put that up for you instead. There's a button that will allow you to select "tiled, zoom, etc" to make the image fit your screen. Note though that if you remove the location where you copied that wallpaper from, then KNOS will revert to the previous wallpaper should the new one not be there anymore.
On the tab to the left of that one, you can select from several other "themes" to further customize the look of KNOS. You can even hit the "Customize" button and mix and match icons, window borders and controls for your own custom look. Feel free to play, KNOS will always default to the original next time you boot, and you can always go back and choose something else if you'd like.
Another thing you can do to customize KNOS is that if you right click on any blank area in the top and bottom menu/task bars, you can select "Properties" for another set of selections which will allow you to color the bars themselves, make them transparent, or even choose to autohide them similar to the option in Windows. When in autohide mode, just move your mouse to the bottom or the top to make them appear when you need them. Gives you more screen real estate if you want it.
Please feel free to play with KNOS ... as always, you can't break anything and should you manage to do so somehow, just reboot and whatever happened? Never happened.
