Comments on: Customize the Mac Finder Window Background

By: Rui Valente

Rui Valente — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 12:55:14 +0000

I don’t know why but if you organize a folder by any criteria (name, size, etc.) the background colour defaults to white and the background box will be grayed out in the view options. If anyone knows a workaround for this, please let me know.

By: Livia

Livia — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:17:35 +0000

Why my finder window don’t show the “search for” items? I can find it even in the system preferences!

By: Cary Rader

Cary Rader — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:35:54 +0000

My window is in icon mode and I have the ‘show view options’ window open and I can see the box labeled
Background:
0 white
0 color
0 picture
But unfortunately it is disabled (greyed out) so I can’t make the changes. This is true only in some of my windows. Do you have any suggestion how to enable this option? Thanks

By: jedics

jedics — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:47:34 +0000

thanks a bunch for this, my 25 inch was burning my retinas out.

Weird how u only see this option in icon view, which is why I never new about it as I use column view always.

Now if I can just find a way to do this for firefox and every other app that uses white actually I will be a happy man

By: Manish

Manish — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:52:19 +0000

Off the top of my head, a very simple solution is to use folder Labels to color behind the text.

- Manish

By: oscar

oscar — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:44:16 +0000

is there anyway of changing the text colour in each folder window in this way? i changed the background image to something very dark and now i can’t see the text unless i highlight it.

By: yagmot

yagmot — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:56:04 +0000

Just use iTerm instead of Terminal.app

By: richie

richie — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:24:25 +0000

question? and if want collumvieuw with colered background.
is there a way around .terminal?

By: Sheryl

Sheryl — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:49:02 +0000

You’ve got to choose “show as icons” in the titlebar.
Oh, I see it now. Thank you for the clarification.

By: drydogs

drydogs — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:07:43 +0000

Make sure you have a Finder window open, preferably like your home folder and in icon view.

You’re in the right view options menu, it’s actually a floating window and will change to accommodate the selected window whatever it may be in the Finder, but again no icon view = no custom background.

I have mine set similar to OP picture, but I use a gradient background I created and it looks nice.

By: Tomge

Tomge — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:42:43 +0000

Hi,

You’ve got to choose “show as icons” in the titlebar.
Then press ‘cmd + j’ and now you should be able to change colors or set a picture. Keep in mind, your picture won’t be resized… so your picture is too large or too small

By: HC

HC — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:22:37 +0000

I really wish I could set a picture as background in my terminal, just like I used to in Ubuntu… :S

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:51:37 +0000

I’m with you. I get nothing like whats in the photo.

By: Sheryl

Sheryl — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:41:10 +0000

Am I missing something? I opened a Finder window and — both by using Command J and by using the View menu to select Show View Options — I just got a window with limited options, none of which include Color or Background. My only options on the resulting windows are:
~ checkbox for “Always open in column view”
~ “Text size” drop-down
~ checkboxes for “Show icons,” “Show icons preview,” and “Show preview column”
~ “Arrange by” drop-down
Is this the right Show View Options window?