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XeniumOS Skins and LED Patterns

XeniumOS supports custom skins and LED PWM patterns. The PWM test patterns are only persistent within XeniumOS so aren't particularly useful, however are documented here anyway.

  • Skins should be placed in their own subdirectories at \E\XeniumOS\Skins\
  • LED scripts should be placed in \E\XeniumOS\LEDs\

Skins

Skins require a 640x480 jpg file named backdrop.jpg with an associated Skin.cfg.
Skin.cfg configures the colour of the text, and menu objects etc. These lines represent a six digit HEX colour value. The comments in this example are provided for clarity only and must be removed before attempting to load the skin in XeniumOS.

An example might look like this:

9abcde //Text Box - Text Colour
9abcde //Text Box - Background Colour
9abcde //Text Box - Border Colour 
9abcde //Text Box - Text Selection Highlight Colour
9abcde //Menus - Text Colour
9abcde //Menus - Text Selection Highlight Colour
9abcde //File Explorer - Background Colour
80     //Top Menu - X Position
153    //Top Menu - Y Position
300    //Top Menu - Width
256    //Top Menu - Height
8      //Top Menu - No. Items to Display

See the releases section for an example skin I put together: enter image description here
If you would like me to add your custom skin, please ensure it uses royalty free art work with appropriate credits as required by the author.

LED PWM Patterns

LED test patterns have the file extension led. A quote from TeamXodus on the format

The format of these files is straightforward; each line in the file represents one set of the leds. The first number is the duration for this set, the second number represents the color to set on the chip LED (0-7), and the third number is a standard hexadecimal representation of the front-panel LED.

An example of a single line might be
40 1 0f where:
40 = duration (milliseconds?), 1 = RED, 0x0F = green eject led (0xF0 = red eject led)

You can find a program called XeniumOS LED Designer 1.1 online which can assist in creating these patterns.