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I have just found this out when trying to add my custom screen backgrounds ... my head went down and most likely my bottom lip like my 4 year old daughters when I tell her the day out is cancelled becauses its raining.
I loved this feature. I have a big set of pictures which rotate in Eden for each of my screens.
I am wondering if a simple cron-job (OS specific etc) to just copy in picture files over the specified backgorund image file would be a simple solution in part.
Would work for each time XBMC starts I expect ... it wether the Skin refreshed the backgorund image from file every time a screen changes to be of any use. Simple way to test which I will.
I wonder why they dropped this great feature in favour of a single background for all screens ?
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But wouldn't it have been a good idea to at least include a pretty (static, single) background in the main default skin?
I suspect most users will find the big black emptyness on their TV a bit underwhelming after updating.
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If you just have "black emptiness" then something is wrong with your install.
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Aha! Ok, I see all the image files from the dynamic backgrounds in the "skin.confluence" folder (which is under program files btw, not userdata) and it includes a 'skindefault.jpg' with blue bubbles. I've selected one of them as custom background, but shouldn't it revert to a default when that option is UNchecked? Also, I can't really reinstall Confluence.
I still think it would have been neat to have an option in Confluence that said "Use contextual backgrounds", disabled by default, rather than having the feature stripped completely.
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have you tried replacing the frodo confluence skin directory with eden?
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I found addons in two locations:
(1) C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\addons
(2) C:\Users\Sandra\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons
In (1) are the core addons which are installed during XBMC installation. In (2) are all the additional addons and updates.
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
XBMC: Frodo 12
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