Topic       : User Manual for TeraDesk
Author      : Wout Klaren, Henk Robbers, Djordje Vukovic
Version     : February 2017
Subject     : Documentation/Utilities
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      Menus and Dialogs
         Menu title: Options

4.5.7  Window options...                                      TeraDesk

If  you  select this menu option,  you can determine the appearance of
the  desktop, directory,  and view windows  (see below).  A dialog box
is displayed in which you can:

1. Select a fill pattern for the desktop background

2. Select a colour for the desktop background

3. Select a fill pattern for all window backgrounds

4. Select a colour for all window backgrounds

5. Select a font  for text appearing in  directory or  viewer windows.
You must first select the  'Directory  font' or  'Viewer font' button.
The font selector dialog  will appear,  so that  you can  choose   the
desired font,  its size, colour and style.  Only monospaced  fonts are
selectabe  and style  (bold, italic, etc.)  can be  set  only  for the
viewer windows font.

6. Specify the size of tabs when text is displayed in Text windows.

7. Specify distances between icons (in windows and on the desktop).

8. Set whether open windows are to be saved in the configuration file.

The number of available  background patterns is limited  to the sum of
numbers of  fill patterns and hatches  available in VDI.  Selection of
background colours  is limited to the  number of  colours available in
the current video mode. In order for the patterns to be visible in the
selector boxes, colours other than white must be selected.

At least one of the available AESes (i.e. MyAES) has the capability to
display a desktop background picture instead of the colour and pattern
specified for the desktop background object. Similar capability exists
in at least  one utility:  PICDESK by  D.Mequignon. In order to enable
display of  background pictures,  TeraDesk must be started  with white
desktop background colour. In order to have that,  desktop colour must
be set to  white  and TeraDesk  configuration file  saved.  Background
picture can be displayed after the next startup of TeraDesk.

The user  should beware  that redraw  of monochrome  desktop icons  is
dramatically slowed down  whenever  white  desktop colour is selected.
This setting, and in particular, a background desktop picture,  is not
recommended when running TeraDesk on slower machines with limited RAM.

The Tab size field permits the setting  of the number of blank columns
produced in Text windows when a <TAB>  character is  encountered. This
is a global  default setting;  Tab size  for each of the  text windows
can be changed in the menu of that window.

This dialog can also be used to  adjust  the  horizontal and  vertical
distances  between icons on the desktop and in the windows. Beside the
horizontal and vertical icon grid pitch, the offsets of the icons from
the upper left corner of the icon area can be adjusted. The parameters
are set in the following format:

     Hor.grid: aaa +x
     Ver.grid: bbb +y

where "aaa" and   "bbb"  are the  distances,  in pixels,  between  the
icons,  in the  horizontal and vertical directions respectively, while
"x"  and "y"  are the offsets from the corner,  in pixels, in the same
directions.

The default, and minimum permitted, values of these parameters are:

aaa=80 bbb=46 x=0 y=0

Increasing these values can be of interest  primarily to users running
TeraDesk in   higher screen resolutions,  where  larger-size icons can
make sense.

If you are running Tera Desktop in low or medium screen resolution and
TOS 1.0, this menu item may not be visible  because of the limitations
of this  TOS version.  However, in that case  it can still  be reached
through Keyboard shortcuts.

See also:  Supported screen resolutions