Wallpaper, clock and dock
These are the For You sections of Desktop Settings. Each applies to you alone, and only once you have chosen: until then you have the machine's choice, and failing that the built-in one.
Wallpaper #
Wallpaper shows the pictures you can choose from:
- System Default, the machine's wallpaper, or the built-in one when the machine has none;
- the wallpapers Peios ships, kept in
/usr/share/wallpapers/peios, in four series: Contours (Strata, the built-in one, Fold, Chalk and Relief), Afterglow (Cast Glass, Veil and Amber), Elsewhere (Escarpment, Canopy, Mare and Saltpan) and Impressions (Upland and Winter Ridge); - your own picture, once you have chosen one.
Click one to use it. Choose Picture… opens the file dialog for a picture of your own: a PNG, JPEG, SVG, WebP, AVIF or GIF of up to 16 MB, that you can read. The desktop changes at once, on every screen you are signed in on.
The choice is the picture's path, CurrentUser\Software\fenesh Wallpaper
(REG_SZ). Deleting the value is System Default. A path that can't be
read, isn't a picture or is too large is ignored and the next level down
is used.
Clock #
Time Format sets how the clock in the top bar counts the hours:
24-Hour (14:05), 12-Hour (2:05 PM), or System Default, which is
the machine's choice, else 24-hour. It is CurrentUser\Software\fenesh
ClockHours, a REG_DWORD of 12 or 24; any other number is ignored.
The clock shows the time in the machine's time zone, which is set in System Settings; see the time zone.
Dock #
The apps pinned to your dock are changed from the dock and the launcher themselves: right-click an app to pin or unpin it, and drag a pin to move it. Your first change makes your own set; until then the dock shows the machine's pins.
Dock shows whose pins you have. Use System Default throws your own
set away, so the machine's applies to you again. Your set is
CurrentUser\Software\fenesh Pinned, a REG_MULTI_SZ of application ids
in order.
Get Started, under Show Again, opens the welcome you saw on your first sign-in, and shows it again at your next one if it can't open now.
Where to go next #
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Settings for all users, where an administrator sets the machine's wallpaper, clock and pins