Backgrounds

Backgrounds makes your desktop dynamic with 6 themes: iTunes, Parallax, Quartz, Video, System and Time. It is designed for Mac users who want to make the backgrounds of their computer screens more attractive, stylish, and dynamic. This can be done by adding brand new features and helpful widgets to your screen to achieve an exquisite and original desktop appearance.

• Fixes an issue that showed a white background in System Widget and Time Widget

Music

• Now uses the album’s artwork if the song’s artwork is empty
• Configure the side of the info labels

Video

• New options for changing and removing a folder

Quartz

• Now uses the album’s artwork if the song’s artwork is empty
• Run a composition at 60 FPS for smoother movement

System

• New dynamic colors algorithm
• Improves the dashboard legibility for small sizes
• Performance optimizations
• Automatically pause a video or a quartz composition when it’s not visible
• New idle theme option to activate a theme when the system is idle
• New option to show or hide the app’s icon in the menu bar
• Show Current Item takes you to the file that’s being used or the current music player
• Updates the Quartz X screen saver
• User experience improvements
• Performance improvements
• Reliability improvements

Bug fixes

• Improves Parallax reliability for an issue that may cause Parallax to stop updating after waking from sleep
• Fixes an issue that caused a theme to disappear when exiting full screen