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Feature Suggestion: The folder background appears as a picture.
Posted: 2021-08-29, 01:42 UTC
by xh5x74pul83O
In Windows XP system, you can set the background picture for the folder by setting the IconArea_Image value in the desktop.ini, but the system after Windows XP does not support customized background picture. Currently, many file managers do not read the IconArea_Image value of the desktop.ini and display the background picture in the list background of the software interface, which is very practical and cool,Can Total Commander add this function?
Re: Feature Suggestion: The folder background appears as a picture.
Posted: 2021-08-29, 02:05 UTC
by Gral
xyplorer? Maybe... But here is Total Commander forum!
Do you really think something strange happened here during the week?
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https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=75225
Re: Feature Suggestion: The folder background appears as a picture.
Posted: 2021-08-30, 00:10 UTC
by xh5x74pul83O
Sorry, the software name is entered incorrectly.
Re: Feature Suggestion: The folder background appears as a picture.
Posted: 2021-08-30, 23:36 UTC
by DrShark
xh5x74pul83O wrote: ↑2021-08-29, 01:42 UTCread the IconArea_Image value of the
desktop.ini and display the background picture in the list background of the software interface, which is very practical and cool,Can Total Commander add this function?
1. Desktop.ini method of setting a picture as a panel background is not supported by TC - neither as a built-in feature nor with help of plugins/addons.
2. As of 2017, any kind of picture background for folders was not planned:
https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=333250#p333250
3. There is a possibility to set per-folder background pictures for Total Commander panels with TWinKey plugin which uses own autoswitch rules instead of desktop.ini. Part of TWinKey.ini with a rule to show a picture in listed folders if picture file with certain defined name present in mentioned folder (in sample below dir and its subdir defined as folders where background picture will be shown if its file is available in respective folders):
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[Config]
AutoView=1
[AutoView]
MyViewModeWithBackgroundPicture=?c:\dirwithpic|?c:\dirwithpic\subdirwithpic
[MyViewModeWithBackgroundPicture]
Active=1
Sort=0
BkgPic=.\PictureName.jpg
FileGroupping=0
FileGroupping2=30534884
Note that although this particular feature of TWinKey works in current versions of Total Commander (at least its 32-bit versions), there are known compatibility issues with modern TC mentioned in TC's
history.txt, in
TWinKey discussion topic, and other places of this forum, as well as some that probably not mentioned before - like native TC's tab icons disappearance after cm_UnloadPlugins, random tab lines or whole tab groups hiding behind panels, some incompatibilities with Total Commander's dark mode (which also partially conflicts with TWinKey's background picture feature - dark background covers pictures on area with file names), some errors like this:
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TWinKey
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A required resource was unavailable.
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ОК
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if TWinKey fails to draw background picture over TC panel etc...
Re: Feature Suggestion: The folder background appears as a picture.
Posted: 2021-08-31, 03:49 UTC
by xh5x74pul83O
Thank you, very much!