Appearance->background settings don't work

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#1

Hello,

First post here :slight_smile: Hoping someone may know why my OSMC appearance->background settings have no effect. On intial install of OSMC on RPI3, I thought OSMC looked a little bland: solid blue background, no images, textures or seperating lines. It wasn’t until yesterday I saw screenshots on the web and realized there are options for the extra “effects”. I found what I believe are the settings in appearance->backgrounds and turned them all on. No effect. At first they wouldn’t even persist on reset, but now they seem to stick, but still no change in visuals. Could I be missing files or config files? Below is what I thought would be the relevant logs. Any hints on where to look to fix this would be awesome! Thanks!

http://paste.osmc.io/vimuzakeru

#2

Are you certain that these were not from a completely different skin all together? Exactly what background settings are you talking about that you turned on?

#3

Hi ActionA, thanks for the reply. I’ll be really embarrassed if I’m totally wrong here.

My OMSC currently looks like: An improved look and feel for OSMC - OSMC (solid blue background)

I assumed the settings in settings->appearance->skin->settings->background-> [show background visualization, etc]
were to add a bit of the visual goodies as you see here:

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=221326

Am I out to lunch and its simply a newer revision of the skin?

thanks again