Chapter 9. Theme Settings

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9 Theme Settings

The Theme Settings menu o ers options that you can change to customize the visual apperance of Rockbox.

Browse Themes. This option will display all the currently installed themes on the

player, press Select or Right to load the chosen theme and apply it.

 

A theme is a con guration le, stored in a speci c directory, that typically changes

 

the WPS , font used and on some platforms additional information such as back-

 

ground image and text colours.

 

There are a number of themes that ship with Rockbox. If none of these suit your

 

needs, many more can be downloaded from . Some of the downloads from this

 

website will actually be standalone WPS les, others will be full-blown themes.

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Note: Themes do not have to be purely visual. It is quite possible to create a theme

that switches between audio con gurations for use in the car, with headphones and

when connected to an external ampli er. See section 11.2.2 (page 134) for more

 

details.

 

Browse Fonts. Browse the installed fonts on your player. Selecting one will activate it.

 

See section 11.1.2 (page 133) for further details about fonts.

 

Browse WPS les. Opens the File Browser in the /.rockbox/wps directory and

 

displays all .wps les. Selecting one will activate it, stop will exit back to the

 

menu. For further information about the WPS see section 4.3 (page 28). For

 

information about editing a .wps le see section 11.2 (page 134).

 

Show Icons. Rockbox has the ability to display an icon to the left of the le in the File

 

Browser. For details of these icons, see section A.1 (page 140). These icons can

 

also be customised. See the ZIconSets and ZCustomIcons Wiki pages for details.

 

Clear Backdrop: Rockbox allows you to select bitmap pictures to use as backdrops, see

 

section 11.1.6 (page 134) for further information. This option allows you to clear

 

the backdrops that you set.

 

Line Selector Type. This option allows you to select which type of line selector to use.

 

Pointer: A small arrow to the left of the menu text.

 

Bar (inverse): A bar with inverted foreground and background colour.

 

Bar (Solid Colour): A bar with a solid colour, the colour is set in the Colours

 

submenu.

 

The Rockbox manual

Toshiba Gigabeat F Series

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