TidyTabs Configuration > Appearance

Here you can configure the appearance of the tabs added to your applications by TidyTabs. To access this screen, double-click on the TidyTabs tray icon, at the bottom-right corner of the screen, and click on APPEARANCE.

The APPEARANCE tab

TidyTabs - Settings - Appearance

  • Tabs colors: this setting allows you to change the background colors of the tabs displayed by TidyTabs. The default value is Use a different color for each application. (only available in the Professional Edition)
    • None: all the tabs are white.
    • Use a custom color: all the tabs are drawn with the same user defined color.
    • Use the Windows theme color: TidyTabs uses the color used by Windows to draw window borders.
    • Use a different color for each application: TidyTabs affects a different color for each application. The color is based on the dominant color of the application icon.
  • Tabs transparency: this setting allows you to adjust the transparency of the tabs in different situations. By default, the tabs are configured to stay semi-transparent until use them, in order to reduce the visual noise.
    • Active: set the opacity of the tab group attached to the foreground window. The default value is 75%.
    • Inactive: set the opacity of the tab groups attached to inactive windows. The default value is 25%.
    • Mouse hover: set the opacity of the tab group under the mouse cursor. The default value is 100%.
  • Drag & Drop preview: this settings allows you to configure the appearance of the small preview image following the mouse cursor when you drag a tab from one group to another.
    • Preview opacity: set the opacity of the preview image. The default value is 50%.
    • Preview size: set the size in pixels of the preview image. The default value is 300.

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