aMSN default skin - contact list background color

[Ephebus]

I've just upgraded aMSN to version 0.98.1 and the default skin's contact list background color changed from this to a blinding white. I couldn't find any options to change it back.

[nicolunacba]

Hi and welcome to the forums. The background was removed because it makes aMSN runs slow . However, you can try to download this http://amsn.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/amsn/trunk/amsn/skins/default.tar.gz?view=tar&pathrev=11459 That is the last version of the Skin before we changed it.

Untar it (with WinRAR in Windows) and go to the aMSN installation folder
- Windows: C:\Program Files\amsn\Scripts\skins\ (or something like that, Mac OS X user, sorry)
- Mac OS X: /Applications/aMSN.app/Content/Resources/Scripts/skins
- Linux: I can't remember it lol

Back up your old "default" skin and copy the new folder you've downloaded.

I hope it can help you =) Good luck!

--- updated link, I put the link for pixmaps before, now the link download the skin

[asdolo]

because the skin have no option
if you want to change the background color you can open setting.xml inside the default skin folder with notepad, then you look for
<ContactList>
          <Colors>
         <mainwindowbg>#efefef</mainwindowbg>
         <topcontactlistbg>#ffffff</topcontactlistbg>   <!-- color for the top of the contact list, the status part -->
         <contactlistbg>#ffffff</contactlistbg>   <!-- color of the contact list, where the contacts appear -->

and here you can change #efefef #ffffff etc. with what you want

here some examples of code you have to use http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_colornames.asp

[Ephebus]

Thanks for the fast replies, folks! I went with asdolo's solution because it was simpler and didn't require messing with skin versions. Actually, it's so simple that it could easily become an option in aMSN.