Backgrounds

Backgrounds makes your desktop dynamic with 7 themes: Music, Parallax, Video, Quartz, System, Clock and Web and includes a Notification Center Today Widget and 2 Screen Savers: Glass and Quartz X. 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.

New Features

• Adds the Theme submenu to the status icon menu in the menu bar
• Unifies the menu bar status icon menu with the Dock menu
• Adds Custom option for Video Idle Time
• Adds Reset Preferences for each display in Preferences > General as a contextual menu

Music

• Video Match adds support for Spotify and Swinsian

Parallax

• Adds support for files outside the Pictures folder

Web

• Adds double click to show Desktop

Improvements

• User experience improvements
• UI improvements
• Under the hood improvements
• Improves System theme and widget support in High Sierra
• Renames the Time theme to Clock
• Improves shadow drawing for Clock
• Improves default positioning for System and Clock themes and widgets
• Improves Video logic for skipping a file after it failed loading

Fixes

• Bug fixes
• Fixes an issue that prevented rendering when entering full screen in Quartz
• Fixes some issues for Quartz when viewing in full screen