You may or may not have noticed by now, but ScreenThemes does not have an icon bar that appears on the taskbar
with all the other currently running programs. It does, however, place a small icon in the system tray on the
right of the taskbar. It either looks like a camera shutter or simply says Star Wars.
If ScreenThemes is hidden (minimized), you can double-click this icon to bring it up again. You can also
single-click it to get a small menu of neat features. You can keep ScreenThemes minimized all day, and at
any time you can reach over, right-click, and have it "instantly" change your wallpaper.
You can quickly add a monthly calendar, run your screen saver, set a new wallpaper image; all directly from the system tray.
Now that's trés cool!
One thing we designed into the program is that the close button will probably not exit the program. You can
double-click the leftmost button on ST's title bar, or click the "X" button on the right -- either one will most
likely leave the tray icon running. If you want to really shut it down, select File / Exit from the menu,
or Close from the tray icon's popup menu. You can modify this behavior by going into the Daily Schedule dialog.
At the bottom is a recycle timer setting and two checkboxes labeled "Remain in system tray in case of
resolution/color depth changes." If the timer is set to recycle images periodically, ST must remain in the tray
to accomplish this. If the timer is not set, you have the option of keeping it in the tray or not.
The tray app is a tiny, separate program and uses much less memory now throughout the day -- almost none, in fact!
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