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  59 <h2><img src="../../images/prefs-images/backgrounds-icon_64.png" alt="backgrounds-icon_64.png" width="64" height="64" />Backgrounds</h2>
  60 <table summary="quickinfo" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
  61 <tr><td>Deskbar:</td><td style="width:15px;"></td><td><span class="menu">Preferences</span></td></tr>
  62 <tr><td>Location:</td><td></td><td><span class="path">/boot/system/preferences/Backgrounds</span></td></tr>
  63 <tr><td>Settings:</td><td></td><td><span class="path">~/config/settings/system/app_server/workspaces</span><br />
  64 <span class="path">~/config/settings/Backgrounds settings</span> - stores the panel's window position</td></tr>
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  66 <p>You can set a color or an image as background for every folder and the Desktop for every workspace.</p>
  67 <p><br /></p>
  68 <img src="../images/prefs-images/backgrounds.png" alt="backgrounds.png" />
  69 <p>The top menu specifies if your changes are applied to the current workspace only, all workspaces, a specific folder or as default for every new folder.</p>
  70 <p>Below that you can assign an image or select <span class="menu">None</span> if you want simply a colored background. Images can also be drag &amp; dropped onto the preview to the left.</p>
  71 <p>If you are using an image, you have to decide on the placement:</p>
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  73 <tr><td><span class="menu">Manual</span></td><td> </td><td>lets you specify the coordinates. You can drag the picture around in the preview to the left or enter <i>X</i> and <i>Y</i> manually.</td></tr>
  74 <tr><td><span class="menu">Center</span></td><td> </td><td>centers the picture in the middle of the screen.</td></tr>
  75 <tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="menu">Scale to fit</span></td><td> </td><td>enlarges the picture with no regard to its aspect ratio until it fills the screen.</td></tr>
  76 <tr><td><span class="menu">Tile</span></td><td> </td><td>fills the screen by repeating the picture.</td></tr>
  77 </table>
  78 <p>Activating <span class="menu">Icon label outline</span> puts a thin contour around icon labels.</p>
  79 <p>Whether an icon label's actual text is black or white depends on the setting of the color picker. A dark color sets the text to white, a light color to black. So, if you assign a very bright image to the background, you should also set the color picker to a bright color in order to have icon labels readable in black. (Or use the outline option above.)<br />
  80 The selected color is also reflected in the <a href="../desktop-applets/workspaces.html">Workspaces applet</a>, which ignores images as backgrounds.</p>
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  82 <tr><td><span class="button">Revert</span></td><td> </td><td>brings back the settings that were active when you started the Backgrounds preferences.</td></tr>
  83 <tr><td><span class="button">Apply</span></td><td> </td><td>sets your changes.</td></tr>
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