Archive:Settings legacy/Appearance

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Skin

See also Settings/Skin for skin specific settings.

Skin: Allows you to select the skin for the User Interface. See Skinning XBMC for more information.

Editor note: Future FRODO skin settings is moved here

- Theme: Allows you to change the theme associated with your selected skin. See Skin Themes for more information.
- Colours: Allows you to change the colours of your selected skin. See Skin Themes for more information.
- Fonts: Allows you to choose the fonts displayed in the User Interface. The font sets are configured in the font.xml portion of your skin. See Fonts for more information.
- Zoom: Allows you to zoom in the view of the GUI.
Startup window: Allows you to select the screen that XBMC starts up to.
Navigation sounds: Allows you to select or disable the sound scheme used in the User Interface.

Language: Chooses the language the User Interface is displayed in.
Region: Allows you to select the various formats used in XBMC for temperature, time and date. The available options are depending on selected language.
Character set: Allows you to choose which character set is used for displaying text in the GUI.

Show parent folder items: Determines the display of the parent folder icon (..).
Show file extensions: Determines the display of the extensions on media files. For example. "You Enjoy Myself.mp3" would be simply be displayed as "You Enjoy Myself".
Ignore articles when sorting: Allows for certain tokens to be ignored during sort operations. For example, with this option enabled, "The Simpsons" would simply be sorted as "Simpsons". Tokens are configured through langinfo.xml or through <sorttokens> in advancedsettings.xml.
Allow file renaming and deletion: Allows you to delete and rename files through the user interface, via the contextual menu (press C on a keyboard, for example, to bring up this menu).
Show "Add source" buttons in file lists: Shows the add source button from root sections of the user interface.
Show hidden files and directories: Shows hidden files and directories.

See also: Settings/System#Power saving

Screensaver time: Allows you to set the amount of idle time required before displaying the screensaver.
Screensaver mode: Chooses the screensaver. Note: When fullscreen video playback is paused, or a dialog box is active, XBMC will force the "Dim" screensaver. To avoid potential worries of plasma screen burn-in, set the Dim screensaver fade level to 0%. Old versions of XBMC could only select down to 10% via the settings screen; this can also be accomplished by adding an entry to advancedsettings.xml for <screensaver><dimlevel>0</dimlevel></screensaver> (this will remove the Fade Level control from the settings screen altogether).
- Settings: Allows control of such things as Screensaver dim level which controls how much the screen dims when the screensaver is set to dim mode and Slideshow folder, which determines what pictures to use when the screensaver is set to Slideshow mode.
- Preview: Allows you to preview the selected screensaver.

Use visualization if playing audio: With this option enabled, XBMC will start the selected visualization instead of displaying the screensaver if music is being played.
Use dim if paused during video playback: With this option enabled, XBMC will dim the display when media is paused, Not valid for the "Dim" screensaver mode.