Window Background

[soldiers33]

How to change the background colour of a window? I have tried changing it in window color and appearance but it still appears white. Im talkin about the background that is in documents or pictures or other folders.

[rajtheeban]

not with VSB, only in your shellstyle (at least with Vista); search the following text and change "background" and "sortcolumn" to your color when you find them (5-6 times); foreground = for the text

<if id="atom(clientviewhost)">
<ViewHost
foreground="themeable(ARGB(255, 86, 86, 86), windowtext)"
background="themeable(ARGB(255, 252, 252, 252), window)"
sortcolumn="themeable(ARGB(255, 250, 250, 250), window)"
subtext="ARGB(255, 95, 95, 95)"

[soldiers33]

thx will try it out now, ow on earth do you guys find these things?

just checked the only thing i get is this

<if id="atom(clientviewhost)">

<ViewHost

foreground="windowtext"

background="themeable(gtc(ItemsView, 0, 0, 3802), window)"

sortcolumn="themeable(gtc(ItemsView, 0, 0, 3802), window)"

subtext="ARGB(255, 139, 139, 139)"

how will I know which one to edit if there is like 6 of them and all have the same text and nowhere to enter the color.

[rajtheeban]

i don't know if that answers  your question, just change the "x" to your RGB color:

<if id="atom(clientviewhost)">
<ViewHost
foreground="themeable(ARGB(255, 86, 86, 86), windowtext)"
background="themeable(ARGB(255, x, x, x), window)"
sortcolumn="themeable(ARGB(255, x, x, x), window)"
subtext="ARGB(255, 95, 95, 95)"

ex:

<if id="atom(clientviewhost)">
<ViewHost
foreground="themeable(ARGB(255, 86, 86, 86), windowtext)"
background="themeable(ARGB(255, 0, 0, 0), window)"
sortcolumn="themeable(ARGB(255, 0, 0, 0), window)"
subtext="ARGB(255, 95, 95, 95)"

= Black background

This is a complete list of RGB color available (name and code)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors


Complete tuto here: http://ZEUSosX.deviantart.com/art/Black-background-white-text-81934667

[soldiers33]

thx it worked.

[sunbeam2000]

thx will try it out now, ow on earth do you guys find these things?

just checked the only thing i get is this

how will I know which one to edit if there is like 6 of them and all have the same text and nowhere to enter the color.

i didn't check it, but this looks like a 7 shellstyle txt, and this time the color is placed in the msstyle, so you can edit there with VSB