Psion Teklogix netBook, 32M/64M manual Customising Your Netbook, Creating your own wallpaper

CUSTOMISING YOUR NETBOOK

This chapter includes some ideas for customising the netBook.

Note: You can customise the way many programs work using the Preferences commands on the program’s Tools menu.

Creating your own wallpaper

You can change the “wallpaper” that appears in the background on the System screen. You can use any picture that you draw or import into Sketch.

To create wallpaper:

1.Display the picture in Sketch. If you only want to use part of a picture, select the area.

2.Select Save as System wallpaper from the More commands on the File menu.

3.Type a name for the wallpaper file. Sketch keeps the files that contain wallpaper separate from the original Sketch files so you can carry on using your original picture without affecting the wallpaper.

∙To select wallpaper: move to the System screen and select Preferences from the Tools menu, then select the name of the wallpaper file that you want to display.

∙To delete a file containing wallpaper: move to Sketch and select Delete System wallpaper from the More commands on the File menu. Select the wallpaper that you want to remove. You cannot delete the built-in wallpaper included with the netBook.

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Recording your own alarms

You can use the Record program to create alarm sounds which can be used in Time and Agenda.

∙To save a recording for use as an alarm sound: select the Save as alarm button on the Toolbar or the command from the File menu and type a name for the alarm sound. This creates another version of the sound as an alarm, and leaves the original file open in Record.

∙To delete a custom alarm sound: select the Delete alarm sound command from the File menu, and select the alarm to delete from the list. You cannot delete or modify the built-in netBook alarm sounds.

Customising the System screen

You can use the commands on the View menu to change how the System screen looks and works:

∙change the position of the Title by selecting Title position, and the width of the columns by selecting Column width.

∙use Zoom in and Zoom out to change the size of text and icons on screen so that more or fewer files and folders are displayed.

∙turn the Toolbar off and on with Show toolbar; without the Toolbar you can see more of the System screen.

∙control how the files are sorted, and what file information is displayed with Sort files and Show file details. When you first use the netBook, files are grouped ‘by type’ (i.e. according to program); you can change this to sort them by date, name or size.

You can customise many of the ways that the netBook works from the System screen using the Preferences command and the icons in the Control panel. For example, you might want to change the automatic switch off setting, owner information, the