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Hidden EventBox Settings
We’ve put some hidden settings in EventBox so people don’t play around with them too much. I’ll share some of these settings with you so you can experiment and adjust them if you find the defaults not right. The commands which follow need to be executed in Terminal (an application, spotlight it if you haven’t used it before).
Note: you need to relaunch EventBox for any of these to have an effect.
Heads-Up Blur
You can turn off the blur by executing:
defaults write com.thecosmicmachine.EventBox DisableWindowBlur -bool YES
You can turn it back on by executing:
defaults write com.thecosmicmachine.EventBox DisableWindowBlur -bool NO
Heads-Up Color Opacity
You can control how much more black you want to add to the HUD on top of the standard Leopard HUD look. The default used in EventBox is 0.3 (the number has to be between 0.0 and 1.0). As an example, if you want to change it to 0.4, execute:
defaults write com.thecosmicmachine.EventBox AdditionalHeadsUpBlack -float 0.4
Main Window Background
You can also change the background of the main window.
defaults write com.thecosmicmachine.EventBox MainWindowBackground -dict R -int 120 G -int 120 B -int 120 A -float 1.0
This will set the background to an ugly shade of gray. Each color component is between 0 and 255 (integers only) and the alpha component is between 0.0 and 1.0.
Main Window Horizontal and Vertical Spacing
You can also adjust the vertical and horizontal spacing between events in the main window. The following commands should be pretty self-explanatory (the default is 15.0 for both settings)
defaults write com.thecosmicmachine.EventBox MainWindowVerticalSpacing -float 0.0
defaults write com.thecosmicmachine.EventBox MainWindowHorizontalSpacing -float 30.0
Experiment
Now go and experiment with those. If you have found some nice colors / spacings and would like to share them, please drop us a tweet (@eventbox). Have fun!
