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I made myself an active desktop to change my desktop image every so often, the only thing is, the active desktop only works if there's an icon on the desktop. I put an icon on the desktop, and it isnt transparent...the icon text has a background, which totally screws up my image. Is there anyway around this?
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actually, this doesnt really have anything to do with the active desktop part at all.
Windows has always put a square border around the text of an icon..... it is set to the desktop background color. So if you have an image set as your background, your icon texts are gonna stand out.
There are 3rd party applications that will actually set something to the font or something that makes the block disapere. But in my opinion it looks even worse, cause the colors of the background usually clash with the text and stuff.
but hey.... o well.
I dont really know the names of anything that will do this for ya though. You can TRY tweak-ui but im not really sure.
Windows has always put a square border around the text of an icon..... it is set to the desktop background color. So if you have an image set as your background, your icon texts are gonna stand out.
There are 3rd party applications that will actually set something to the font or something that makes the block disapere. But in my opinion it looks even worse, cause the colors of the background usually clash with the text and stuff.
but hey.... o well.
I dont really know the names of anything that will do this for ya though. You can TRY tweak-ui but im not really sure.
Yes it does. When I don't have the active desktop enabled, there is no box around the text of my icons. There is a shadow to the text, but no color-box.Plasma2002b wrote:actually, this doesnt really have anything to do with the active desktop part at all.
You can actually make your normal desktop to be a .gif, you don't need to enable active desktop. I'm a little sketchy on the details, but from what I do know, its an html page.rokbass wrote:how do you make an active desktop?
is it like a gif or something?
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Right. XP's text label backgrounds are transparent, so long as active desktop is not enabled; but when it is, the text label backgrounds become non-transparent.sw³³n³y wrote:Yes it does. When I don't have the active desktop enabled, there is no box around the text of my icons. There is a shadow to the text, but no color-box.Plasma2002b wrote:actually, this doesnt really have anything to do with the active desktop part at all.
So how do I make it transparent despite the active desktop? Or, is there no way..Michael wrote: Right. XP's text label backgrounds are transparent, so long as active desktop is not enabled; but when it is, the text label backgrounds become non-transparent.
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