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24. November 2002, 18:46:17

Posts: 84

Want to change background color

Hi,

I tried to change background color of the Opera when no windows open (and failed, can only add skin, but not change color), but even more important, I tried to change the background color of the mail from white to grey, since white hurts my eyes very much. Cannot find option to do so. Anyone any ideas???

23. December 2002, 10:46:05

Pesala

Reclining Buddha

Posts: 25782

Window Colour Schemes

Right-click on the desktop, select the Appearance tab, and set the colour for Window backgrounds to whatever you want.

I have a nice pastel shade of green as the background to this Post Reply dialogue box, my emails, and in my wordprocessor too.

With no windows open in Opera, the background skin will show. Just choose any suitable bitmap. The default image is not hard on the eyes. With no skinning you get the desktop colour, which can be changed from the Appearance tab, like the Window background colour.

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9. January 2003, 01:03:44

Blademaster

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Default Message Background

Is it possible to change the deafult (White) in the message body?

My window background is fine (grey) however my message bodies always appear white. I'd like them to match my window color (grey).

Thanks in advance
Charles

10. January 2003, 14:56:59

Pesala

Reclining Buddha

Posts: 25782

Blademaster: Have you tried my tip?

On the appearance tab, select Item Window, and change the colour to whatever you want.

I have a pastel green which is the default background colour for all Windows in all applications, including this dialogue box, and new emails that I compose.

In Opera preferences:
Browser Look, Fonts and Colours
Check Use System Defaults

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13. January 2003, 01:28:07

Blademaster

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Thanks, that's all fine though. I have set these preferences.

The only way I can get the message body to be the same colour as the background is to turn off Author mode and it's options.

Also I can't see the "use system defaults" in beta 2 but I do remember seeing it in Beta 1.

Cheers
Charles

2. April 2004, 21:23:13

hucker

Posts: 1407

Having same problem. When no mail is displayed, I get my grey background color. I've set everything right in opera and windows as far as I can see - see attached image.

prefs.jpg

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3. April 2004, 04:20:45

sgunhouse

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Mail message views are controlled by {opera install directory}\styles\mime.css, try editing that. You find this section:

/* The "real"  (body) part */

omf|body, omf|div
{
 background-color	: white;
 color			: black;
 display		: block;
 padding: 0;
}

You see right there where it says white? Change that to window to follow your Windows window color, or to something else if you want.

For me, everything below the body (which is to say, the area where any attachments are shown) is in my window color, only the body is white - as it says above.

There, now it is my window color.

20. April 2004, 19:37:10

leftfrog

Posts: 6

Any tips on how to set the background color when displaying a .jpg? I don't see a style sheet that looks like it applies, and having a bright white background when viewing dark pictures makes it really difficult to see the picture.

-Michael

20. April 2004, 21:39:54

hucker

Posts: 1407

Strange, I did what sgunhouse suggested and it worked fine.

omf|body, omf|div
{
background-color : window;
color : black;
display : block;
padding: 0;
}

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21. April 2004, 02:35:21

sgunhouse

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Posts: 65165

I think he's posting in the wrong section - I think he meant in the browser. There is no stylesheet that applies to an image by itself in a browser window, sorry. On the other hand, in Windows Opera will use the "window" color automatically - if you don't mind changing how other programs look in Windows.

16. June 2004, 22:19:24

hucker

Posts: 1407

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh hell it's happened again! I changed the windows colours for some reason, changed them back, and windows completely messaed up the colours, I got black on black text everywhere and had a hell of a job to get it back visible! Anyway I had to reset it to XP default, and now Opera has gone back to showing a white background under the messages (i.e. in the attachment area (see attachment). HOW DO I CHANGE THIS?!?!?!?! I got this in C:\Program Files\Opera\Styles\mime.css:

/* The "real" (body) part */

omf|body, omf|div
{
background-color : window;
color : black;
display : block;
padding: 0;
}

damnwhite.jpg

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17. June 2004, 00:10:39

Spurry

Posts: 114

Remove the background-color element or comment it out - it will then default to your Windows colour. This is what I did.
eg
omf|body, omf|div
{

color : black;
display : block;
padding: 0;
}

17. June 2004, 01:30:10

hucker

Posts: 1407

OOOOOOOH it worked! Thanks :-)

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