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Changing Home screen

I looked at the Microsoft website for help, but it gave instructions that were not on my Exec....
this is what they wrote:
Change the Home screen appearance
* On the Home screen, click Start > Settings > Home Screen.
* Under Home screen layout, Color scheme, and Background image, select the options you want, and then click Done.
I haven't even got "Home Screen" under "settings" whats going on?
I want to change the font and colour on my Home screen...how do i do that?
cheers

possibly a dumb question BUT were you looking for the instructions under Windows Mobile 5, OR under an older version?

budo*85 said:
I looked at the Microsoft website for help, but it gave instructions that were not on my Exec....
this is what they wrote:
Change the Home screen appearance
* On the Home screen, click Start > Settings > Home Screen.
* Under Home screen layout, Color scheme, and Background image, select the options you want, and then click Done.
I haven't even got "Home Screen" under "settings" whats going on?
I want to change the font and colour on my Home screen...how do i do that?
cheers
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'Home Screen' is on a Smartphone
'Today Screen' is on a PDA
= You're looking at the wrong instructions

The Picture & Videos application has a menu option to set a picture as your Today screen background. It's easy.

no no not the picture, the font colour and size....

budo*85 said:
no no not the picture, the font colour and size....
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Colours and typefaces are really defined within the Theme (.tsk) that you choose.

oh ok... so where can i get more themes from?

budo*85 said:
oh ok... so where can i get more themes from?
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A few have been posted here on this Universal forum. But you'll need to find VGA ones. Avoid those marked Extended for other devices - I've not found one that works, although I believe there is a registry hack that makes them somewhat more compaitible. Even those marked VGA may not correctly switch between portrait and landscape. Many are an "acquired" taste, so be prepared to experiment.
There are people that sell their Today Theme designs on Handango, etc., and some are quite nice. You'll also get some themes bundled with skins for PocketBreeze, WAB, and most of the other Today screen launchers.
It is posible to "roll-your-own". Microsoft did produce a Theme Generator some years ago, but I don't believe that handles the Universal's screen resolution or landscape. I did see a company selling a generator that handled VGA resolutions, but can't remember who, and seem to remember it was US$50 or more, so I gave it a miss.

Sorry, somebody previously posted the following, but I've not tried the link:
"Today themes:
http://www.mcdeb.com/
go to the top of the page to SEARCH and look for VGA, you will get a list of themes that also work in landscape, and they're free!
http://www.mcdeb.com/
E.g.:
http://www.mcdeb.com/MT/archives/000852.html
For help installing goto:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/articles/personalize.mspx"

Ultimatelaunch disable tab highlighting

Does anybody know if there is any way to disable the highlighting of a tab when it is selected in Ultimatelaunch? I'm trying to get rid of the semi-transparent box around the current tab. I still want to keep the transparency effect of the icon though.

skp19 said:
Does anybody know if there is any way to disable the highlighting of a tab when it is selected in Ultimatelaunch? I'm trying to get rid of the semi-transparent box around the current tab. I still want to keep the transparency effect of the icon though.
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That option is under the HEADERS tab.

I only see the options to change the color of it under headers. I am trying to disable it or make it transparent.

Change the height of the headers to 0% .

skp19 said:
I only see the options to change the color of it under headers. I am trying to disable it or make it transparent.
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If you are saying you don't want to see the headers (and just use gestures or D-Pad to switch Tabs), then you can set the Header height to "0". But beware, the only way I could find (and it took me a little while) to get back into Options, was to run UltimateLaunchConfig.exe under \Program Files\UltimateLaunch\.

Ya Boi D Today said:
Change the height of the headers to 0% .
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holmanm Today said:
If you are saying you don't want to see the headers (and just use gestures or D-Pad to switch Tabs), then you can set the Header height to "0". But beware, the only way I could find (and it took me a little while) to get back into Options, was to run UltimateLaunchConfig.exe under \Program Files\UltimateLaunch\.
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Jinx, Ya Boi D, you have to email me a Coke.

I don't want to hide the tabs. I just want to hide the highlighting of the tabs. I attached a screenshot of what I'm trying to get rid of. The little controller icon is the one that is currently selected. I want it so that the icon transparency changes but i don't want the highlighting of the tab to show.

Under the "display" tab, set the colorized background to: color: 0, blurring: 2

Thanks Lilburd. It doesn't totally remove the highlighting but it's close enough for me. I can live with it. I kind of like the little blur effect it has on the background.

skp19 said:
I don't want to hide the tabs. I just want to hide the highlighting of the tabs. I attached a screenshot of what I'm trying to get rid of. The little controller icon is the one that is currently selected. I want it so that the icon transparency changes but i don't want the highlighting of the tab to show.
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can you post the icons here.. they look nice..

Any way to change font colour on Home Screen?

Are there any tweaks to change the colour of the font displaying Missed Calls/Calendar/Date/Alarm etc on the Home Screen (or even better, to have an opaque box behind the text)?
I have some nice photos I want to use as backgrounds, but they are mostly white so I cant see any text!
Cheers,
Doc

same for me... i wanna use a more lighter background picture. But with the white letters its not really useful.

Try this free UI Tweaker
- it is a collection of 4 utilities used to customise the outlook and color scheme of the Pocket PC. This collection includes a simple theme manager and utilities to change the system colors as well as the Today color scheme.

janp said:
Try this free UI Tweaker
- it is a collection of 4 utilities used to customise the outlook and color scheme of the Pocket PC. This collection includes a simple theme manager and utilities to change the system colors as well as the Today color scheme.
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thanks a lot, i'll give it a try!

Hey nickaat,
nickaat said:
thanks a lot, i'll give it a try!
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could you please tell me if this tool works for you and your HD? I want to change my home screen font color too but i still didn`t found a way...
Thanks,
Brad

I've look also for the exactly same thing and I've reached to the following conclusion: you can't do anything about it.
I've tried tons of programs, registry editing, hexa editing etc. Spend days on the issue. Nada, nothing. I even some some experienced users saying that it can be changed almost any colors on tabs, exept the ones above.
LE: I think the most closest possibility for us to obtain this effect is to manually edit the wallpaper and place some dark boxes where the text is written, but this means that the dark boxes will apear on every other tab also.

hello...I have tried this UItweaker on my touch hd...
I tried the one to change the today screen font color...
and spinning wheel of death occured...
so I killed the UITweaker but the font color indeed changed
I soft reseted and changed it back - again spinning wheel of death - and after having back to nromal I removed it because it seems like not the program I want to my mess my phone...since it seems the device does not like it....
and anyway..i think that after having this program my google mpas started to be stupid - I dont know if it really is because of this - but now the google maps show My Location as a venezuela...that is not true, I am in middle europe...WTF I want it work again normally...
this sucks
so if you want try it, it changes the color, but it is not working flawleslly and I hate that...

The UI Tweaker only messed up my other colors, but doesen't changed the color I wanted.
Take care using it.

I also had issues with UI Tweaker, I somehow changed the background of the buttons on the home page (Phone, Programs, x button etc) to pink and couldnt change it back!
I remember seeing a Russian Rom that had black text on the home screen, so I do think its possible.
My workaround for the moment is to edit the background pic and draw an opaque box where the info is displayed.
I think it looks quite cool! It does take a bit of messing around (trial and error) to get it in the right place, and I still have to add a few more (date/alarm)... work is quite busy atm so I dont really have the time!
If I do find another way, I will post it here.

As I said, the only problem for this workaround is that in all other tabs, the background will apear with the boxes from the HOME tab.
I wonder if it is a way of having different wallpapers for each tab.
Must search that.
LE: Found that: Change wallpapers. It gives a solution how to have a different background picture for the rest of the tabs.

so simple
go to settings > home screne > scroll to color scheme & select > scroll to : text: black" then select done

Zmax Pro T-mobile Looking to make the screen resolution higher?

Looking for the screen resolution to be smaller.
The font is set to small, actually looking for a tiny font.
In other words the screen fonts are to big, I guess.
Do I need to load a custom rom?
Thanks
Sent from my Portable

you don't need a custom rom, you can update the displayDPI in your build.prop as long as you have root. You should be able to update the number to update the size of the elements on your screen, give it a quick google!

PassatSport15 said:
Looking for the screen resolution to be smaller.
The font is set to small, actually looking for a tiny font.
In other words the screen fonts are to big, I guess.
Do I need to load a custom rom?
Thanks
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Use a custom launcher like nove you can force override font size there the Nova desktop settings for you Droid and gives you some pretty nice customization options for docks apps even allows you to build custom icons from gallery pics
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw_drx3o3plaZVptWWNxWUdfSmM/view?usp=sharing u should be able to modify fonts using this give it a shot n lmk if your successful

Oreo change Icon Shape

Hi guys,
Some of my icons (like all google apps) have an ugly white boarder around them. When I go into home screen settings I can change the shape of the icons to "original" or "rounded" etc. but that doesn't change the shape for some of the icons. It's apps like playstore, gmail, whatsapp. Things like that.
Is this the same for you guys?
[e] temp fix: NovaLauncher+Icon Pack...

clouds5 said:
Hi guys,
Some of my icons (like all google apps) have an ugly white boarder around them. When I go into home screen settings I can change the shape of the icons to "original" or "rounded" etc. but that doesn't change the shape for some of the icons. It's apps like playstore, gmail, whatsapp. Things like that.
Is this the same for you guys?
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Unfortunately it is also on mine.

Just found out that it's actually an Android Oreo feature called "adaptive icons". It's built in on a system level and apparently can't be disabled
So the only option is to use a custom launcher with icon packs.
cheers guys.

clouds5 said:
Just found out that it's actually an Android Oreo feature called "adaptive icons". It's built in on a system level and apparently can't be disabled
So the only option is to use a custom launcher with icon packs.
cheers guys.
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But you can apparently change the shape to circles or whatever, and I'm not sure where the menu to do this is. Anyone have any ideas?

MDW 100 said:
But you can apparently change the shape to circles or whatever, and I'm not sure where the menu to do this is. Anyone have any ideas?
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The menu is in display/home screen/
(if you use you use stock launcher)

clouds5 said:
The menu is in display/home screen/
(if you use you use stock launcher)
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The icon change option appears only on stock themes.. !! But not for downloaded themes

clouds5 said:
Hi guys,
Some of my icons (like all google apps) have an ugly white boarder around them. When I go into home screen settings I can change the shape of the icons to "original" or "rounded" etc. but that doesn't change the shape for some of the icons. It's apps like playstore, gmail, whatsapp. Things like that.
Is this the same for you guys?
[e] temp fix: NovaLauncher+Icon Pack...
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In nova launcher settings just hold for few seconds volume down, that will activate labs, then go in to icon shape menu in nova and activate legacy icons.