How to personalize your N900

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1 How to personalize your N900 device

How to personalize your N900 device

This page will collect together information on how to change how your device (screen) looks and how it sounds

Various settings

Settings panel Desktop Edit mode

Ringing tones / Ring tones / Ring tunes

Background images

Background images for the home (desktop) screens can be changed individually or all at once using background image sets. (Changing of background of the main screen of selected applications is possible as well - ThemeMaker support?)

The size of the background image is 800x480.

The background image set is defined in a .desktop file

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Background Image
Name=Deers
Hidden=true

X-File1=/home/user/MyDocs/.images/deer1.png
X-File2=/home/user/MyDocs/.images/deer2.png
X-File3=/home/user/MyDocs/.images/deer3.png
X-File4=/home/user/MyDocs/.images/deer4.png

X-Order=01

Themes

There device itself has a limited amount of Themes installed, but there are already a number of alternative themes available.

Transitions

Transition Control is an application which allows you to change various transition effects of the phone. Another approach is to edit the /usr/share/hildon-desktop/transitions.ini file

Device boot video

By default the device displays "Nokia Hands" video while booting up. it is possible to change the video shown during the boot-up or add additional videos in the sequence.

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