Themes downloaded but wallpaper does not show up??

Sunday, February 20, 2005 by pharho | Discussion: DesktopX

Hello Everyone,

Im new to DesktopX.. The default themes that come with the desktopX download all work.. ie I can see the backgrounds.. But when I download a theme, the backgrounds dont come up?? I can see them in display manager.. but they dont show up on my monitor?? Also, If I change wallpapers.. The one I changed to will come up.. Just not the one with the theme.. Strange...

Any help would be appricated.

Thanks

Terry.
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Corky_O
Reply #1 Sunday, February 20, 2005 12:33 PM
If you are applying a theme that includes a WindowBlind, you can load WindowBlinds and go to the "Basic Settings" (left side of panel), and select "Apply any wallpaper supplied", then try to apply the theme again.

This may solve the problem, and is the first thing I would try.

When the theme is applied, the files are written to the various directories, so in the case of a WindowBlind - you will have a folder for the blind in the "Stardock\WindowBlinds", or "Stardock\Object Desktop\WindowBlinds" directory.

You can look inside that folder to see if the background image exists.

I keep all Walls that I want available to me in "C:\Windows" directory (this is where Microsoft places all .bmp (image) files for display backgrounds for shipping by default), and users can place .bmp, .jpeg, .png files here to be available through "Display>Properties" dialog.

I hope this helps.

pharho
Reply #2 Monday, February 21, 2005 4:14 AM
Hey Corky

Thanks a lot for the help!! What I had to do is put the walls in the c:/windows folder and then I could pick them from the display settings..
Thanks!!

Terry.

Corky_O
Reply #3 Monday, February 21, 2005 7:10 AM

~Angelic DestinE
Reply #4 Monday, February 21, 2005 8:08 AM
Yup in XP using the My Pictures folder also has the walls show up in your display properties.

pharho
Reply #5 Saturday, February 26, 2005 10:48 AM
Hi Angel,

Thanks for that tip!!

Corky_O
Reply #6 Saturday, February 26, 2005 11:46 AM
As a side note to using "My Pictures" in XP - you may find that you want to create a few folders to hold images - because every .bmp, .jpeg, and .png that is in the "My Pictures" folder will show up in the Display Properties list and this list can get rather long for such a small dialog box.

Keeping images that you don't want to use as a wallpaper in folders inside of "My Pictures" will keep them from being part of the Display Properties list.

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