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 
tray icon, at the bottom-right corner of the screen, and click on APPEARANCE.
The APPEARANCE tab
- Tabs buttons: this setting allows you to choose the buttons displayed on the tabs.
- Show 'New teb' button: this setting allows you to add a + button at the end of each tab group. Clicking on this button will create a new tab in the group, at the right of the selected tab, with the same application as the selected tab. The default value is checked.
- Hide for heterogeneous groups: this option allows you to hide the New tab button when the group contains tabs from different applications. The default value is checked.
- Hide for single tabs: this option allows you to hide the New tab button when the group contains only one tab. The default value is unchecked.
- Show 'Close tab' button: this setting allows you to add a X button at the end of each tab group. Clicking on this button will close the selected tab. The default value is unchecked.
- Show 'New teb' button: this setting allows you to add a + button at the end of each tab group. Clicking on this button will create a new tab in the group, at the right of the selected tab, with the same application as the selected tab. The default value is checked.
- 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.