4.1 Appearance

"Appearance" is the configuration of a series of components including interface style and appearance of the operating system, such as the desktop, panel, wallpaper, window, menu, etc.

"Appearance" is the configuration of a series of components including interface style and appearance of the operating system, such as the desktop, panel, wallpaper, window, menu, etc.

The basic version of CAB desktop OS provides multiple application tools to rapidly configure the various components of the system.

4.1.1 Backgrounds

4.1.2 Effect

4.1.3 Fonts

4.1.4 Themes

4.1.1 Backgrounds

On the system desktop, firstly right-click to select "Change Desktop Background", or click "Start Menu" → "System Settings" to open the "System Settings" interface, and then click "Desktop Background" to open the "Desktop Background" main interface. In this interface, users can choose the background picture, color, arrangement, etc., according to different demands. After configuration, the user can click the "Close" button. As shown below:


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In the above interface, you can use the "add" button, to add other sources of pictures from the local computer that can be used as the background to customize an individualized desktop background.

In the above figure, you can use the "remove" button, to remove the non-system-generated images added by the user from the local computer.

4.1.2 Effect

The special effects setting for the system includes the setting of desktop effects and CDOS scroll bar. The following is a brief description of the system effects.

Click the "Start Menu"→"System Settings" to open the "System Settings" interface, and then click "Effects" to start the special effects settings interface.

We can see the effects as shown in the figure.

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In the above figure, we can see that if users want to set the desktop effects, you can manually set the contents in the right option, and open the "desktop effects."

4.1.3 Fonts

Users can set the font format, default front of the system, document font, mono-spaced font, title font, text magnification, smoothing and hide show according to different requirements.

Click the "Start Menu"→ "System Settings" to open the "System Settings" interface, and then click the "Font" to start the font tool interface. As shown below:

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To set options like "smoothing", click the corresponding drop-down list and select the corresponding option.

4.1.4 Themes

Users set the system theme, including installed settings, get more and other settings. For the themes that have been installed, users can switch themes, or can get more themes for installation.

Click the "Start Menu"→ "System Settings" to open the "System Settings" interface, and then click "Theme" to start the theme settings interface.

Click the "installed" tab and double-click the theme you selected to apply it. Or you can select the non-current theme, and then click the button "apply theme" to change the theme successfully. If you want to restore to the initial theme of the system, please click the "Restore default" button. As shown below:

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The right side of theme list (as shown in the above figure) with the following icon is current used theme.

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