When you start DesktopX you will probably have the Default theme loaded as you see here. If you haven't, then you've probably started experimenting with loading themes and objects, so the next stages will probably be familiar to you.

In this tutorial we want to start from a blank canvas, therefore we want to remove the curent DesktopX content from the theme.

To do this, we need to launch the DesktopX configuration dialogue. You can do this in several ways. In the Default theme clicking the DesktopX icon on the left underneath the menu will do this, or you can double-click the Desktop icon in the system tray to bring up the dialogue below.

The final option on the Image screen is the 'Advanced' button. If you click on this button the dialogue on the right will be displayed, and here you can scale the object horizontally and/or vertically.

In each case, you don't have to scale the entire object, you can leave areas at the edges unscaled if you wish. For horizontal scaling you can specify the point A and point B. Pixels to the left of A are not scaled, neither are pixels to the right of B. This is the same for vertical scaling using points C and D.

For the pixels in between, you can choose to either tile (repeat) the pixels in between, or stretch them to cover the size of the object.

When you set these parameters, you can then set the appropriate object size in the summary tab.

Once you have done this you would barely know you were using DesktopX. It looks like plain old Windows.

Let's just consider it as an opportunity - our blank canvas.

As we go along, at the end of each section I'll give you an opportunity to download the theme how it should look at each stage. You shouldn't be behind at this stage, but this will give you a chance to catch up if you need to.

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