WindowBlinds: Manage Your Desktop Wallpaper
Walkthrough of WindowBlinds Wallpaper Features
Monday, April 16, 2007 by Island Dog | Discussion: WindowBlinds
I recently wrote about the ability of WindowBlinds to
change the
color of your visual styles, so this week I wanted to touch on another cool
feature of WindowBlinds which is the built-in wallpaper changer. If you
are like me, then you probably have a large gallery of wallpapers on your hard
drive. Organizing them isn't always easy, and finding them and adding them
to your desktop can be just as tedious.
Fortunately, WindowBlinds has some features that can help you with managing your wallpaper collection. In this article I am using WindowBlinds 5.5 to demonstrate these features. In your WindowBlinds configuration window select "Change my wallpaper" from the menu on the left side.
You can simply browse through the thumbnails, and when you want to apply a wallpaper, just double-click the preview and your wallpaper will be applied to the desktop.
There are two options near the bottom right on the configuration window just
above the thumbnail previews. The first one will change the wallpaper
between the larger preview and a gallery view. The second image (tools
icon) is the wallpaper settings option. From that screen you can
add/remove folders that include wallpapers, and select/deselect those folders
from viewing as well. Simply click "add folder" and browse to the folder
that contains your wallpaper collections and they will be added for viewing in
WindowBlinds. You can also set the wallpaper options such as tiled, centered,
stretch, or smart mode from there.
Now that your wallpaper collections are set up, click "Changer" to configure your wallpapers to change based on certain settings. You can set WindowBlinds to change your wallpaper on Monday mornings, every morning, at every logon, or every hour. These are optional settings and you can set it to never change your wallpaper with those settings. You can also set these to only use the wallpapers of your choice, or apply it to them all if you like.
Now a quick note for people who don't want WindowBlinds to apply wallpaper that is included with a theme they are using. In the WindowBlinds configuration select "Override default settings", and make sure the setting "Apply the wallpaper included with a skin" is unchecked.
I made a short video to go along with this tutorial. It shows how easy it is to manage your desktop wallpapers and goes through the features described in this guide.
Reply #2 Thursday, April 19, 2007 2:15 AM
I set up my desktop this morning using the wallpaper changer and downloaded a screeshot, of course you can't see the wallpaper changing. I didn't even try to explain how it worked.
What are the chances of an option that lets you set the time interval for the wallpaper change?
Reply #5 Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:10 AM
Also, in the Wallpaper "mode", most are self explanatory, but just what does "smart mode" do?
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Reply #1 Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:16 AM