Change background of cmd.exe with some picture
Santosh Mohan
Is there any way to set background of cmd.exe to some picture?
Thanks,
Santosh
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santo...@gmail.com "Santosh Mohan" writes:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to set background of cmd.exe to some picture?
That begs the question of _why_ anyone should want to do such a
thing for a text user interface?? You might find the answer in a
Windows newsgroup, but I'd be very surprised if one can do any
more than to define a background colour...
Pete
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Matthias Tacke
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to set background of cmd.exe to some picture?
>
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/console>
which has tabs, tranparent windows and also background pictures.
Regards
Matthias
teebo
> That begs the question of _why_ anyone should want to do such a
yeah that would be as usefull as having a background image
on the windows desktop... i.e. not much.
On the other hand, some kids love these kind of things, it can
be fun and pretty with rounded window-corners, jelly-moving
windows and 3D-desktop cubes, transpararent blurred windowsborders,
toolbars with backgroundtexture, small violet apes hangin in the windows...
Now I'm just waiting for real 3D-rendered windowborders and buttons
that gives shadows onto the windows content :-)
But these things don't last long. if it has raytraced reflections
of the mouse-pointer too I give it 3 days tops!
> thing for a text user interface?? You might find the answer in a
haha, I guess it would be possible to have something similar
for real textmode... like a TSR that change the background color
of the textcells to generate a 80x50 pixel image (in 50 line mode)
behind the text :-D
Not that it would be used by anyone more than one time but...
> Windows newsgroup, but I'd be very surprised if one can do any
> more than to define a background colour...
yep, that would be a question for a Windows-related group
(this is for real DOS), but I suspect it can't be done with
the standard command tool program, need a third-party one for that
Ted Davis
I haven't managed to get it to work - it does nothing and leaves no error
messages.
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Matthias Tacke
virtual machine, but I remember I've had problems with an earlier version
related with the xml file. IIRC they were gone after having renamed it.
HTH
Regards
Matthias
Richard Bonner
> Is there any way to set background of cmd.exe to some picture?
>
*** Why would you want that? How could you read text on top of a photo?
I suppose one could have a webpage-style background, but a solid
background is much better for command-line work.
Richard Bonner
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JJ
dedicated fixed-width font, text mode window.
There's no point of applying an image to a console background. It'll only
slows down the console performance and waste memory.
If you want to do it anyway, you'll have to make your own GUI window that
pipe I/O to and from a console program.
R.Wieser
> If you want to do it anyway, you'll have to make your own
> GUI window that pipe I/O to and from a console program.
DOS ones than a TSR (intercepting certain console-write command (INT 10h
perhaps) )would be possible too.
But as direct screen-memory writes are possible too (difficult to intercept)
this might not be a fuill solution ...
Ofcourse, most all of that becomes moot, as I don't think that the OP will
still be waiting on an answer to a question (s)he posted back in '09 :-)
Regards,
Rudy Wieser
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JJ
>
> But as direct screen-memory writes are possible too (difficult to intercept)
> this might not be a fuill solution ...
be captured or redirected. At least without some hacking.
> Ofcourse, most all of that becomes moot, as I don't think that the OP will
> still be waiting on an answer to a question (s)he posted back in '09 :-)
can very much tell. Moreover there's less than 33% of probability that OP is
a she and less than 25% of those that actually got used to a console.
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Kerr Mudd-John
> You can increase the transparency of the window from the properties of
> Command Prompt Shortcut.
>
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Bah, and indeed, Humbug
Marcus Houlden
wrote the following to comp.os.msdos.misc:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:27:23 -0000, <abd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You can increase the transparency of the window from the properties of
>> Command Prompt Shortcut.
>>
>
> gmail users, eh?
(https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.msdos.misc/SkEgruoQH3A/kTcqwquPk8kJ).
Not bad considering I've seen somne people replying to things that are over
20 years old.
mh.
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JJ
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As I Know, You cant directly change it's wallpaper, but i found a way.
1. Hide Desktop App
2. Enable "Automatically hide the taskbar in tablet mode"
3. Open Cmd
4. Go to Properties
5. Go to Colors Tab
6. Set the opacity to 94%
7.The Change Windows Wallpaper
I Think it's the only way
I Hope it Work
