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    • ankonaskiff17A Offline
      ankonaskiff17 @sdetweil
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      @sdetweil I’ve wrestled with this all morning and exhausted every combination I could imagine, I decided to try sticking a color in as shown below. Not sure if anything can be inferred if it will accept a background color but not a background image. I am ignorant of the vagaries of js but is it possible that background: var(--color-background); in is locking me i n to only color options since the default is set in

      :root {
      --background-color #000
      }
      
      body {
      background: red;
      }
      
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        sdetweil @ankonaskiff17
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        @ankonaskiff17 possibly… disable it in the dev window… uncheck it… right side, near the bottom (that is closest to main.css while top is closest to latest css.

        Sam

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          sdetweil @ankonaskiff17
          last edited by sdetweil

          @ankonaskiff17 so I added a body with a background image, using the MM web server in my custom.css

          body { 
            background-image: url("http://localhost:8090/modules/images/testimage.jpg")
          }
          
          

          and then started MM
          and got
          Screenshot at 2021-08-11 12-09-23.jpg

          u can see the two body clauses on the right, top is custom.css (if u hover over the name it tells u where it came from)

          Sam

          How to add modules

          learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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            sdetweil
            last edited by

            then I added a root entry to custom.css

            root: {
              background-color: black;
            }
            
            html {
            /*  cursor: none; */
            }
            
            body { 
              background-image: url("http://localhost:8090/modules/images/testimage.jpg")
            }
            

            and got
            Screenshot at 2021-08-11 12-18-23.jpg

            notice border around pic

            then turned it off in the dev window

            Screenshot at 2021-08-11 12-18-39.jpg

            border gone

            Sam

            How to add modules

            learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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              sdetweil
              last edited by

              same results with

              root: {
                --background-color: black;
              }
              
              html {
              /*  cursor: none; */
              }
              
              body { 
                background-image: url("http://localhost:8090/modules/images/testimage.jpg")
              }
              

              Sam

              How to add modules

              learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                sdetweil
                last edited by

                using file:// does NOT work

                body { 
                  background-image: url("file:///home/sam/MagicMirror/modules/images/testimage.jpg")
                }
                

                even tho it works in chrome

                Sam

                How to add modules

                learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                • ankonaskiff17A Offline
                  ankonaskiff17 @sdetweil
                  last edited by

                  @sdetweil localhost is what shows in developer window? You show 8090 vs my 8080

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                    sdetweil @ankonaskiff17
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                    @ankonaskiff17 localhost, cause I am on the same machine as MM is running

                    and port 8090 cause I have another app using 8080 …

                    Sam

                    How to add modules

                    learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                      ankonaskiff17 @sdetweil
                      last edited by ankonaskiff17

                      @sdetweil I am getting a Not allowed to load local resource
                      I thought the image might have not been quite right so copied it fresh and did renaming in terminal but really sure what is going on.

                      I’m a dummy. I do think the image file was messed up as I was getting file not found errors before I reloaded & renamed file in terminal vs in the Pi version of file manager. Windows habits die hard.
                      After I did that I started getting the local resource message. I had been doing this through VNC on my laptop but pulled big screen tv over where I could read it, deleted the localhost address from file that I did in VNC and redid the exact same address via Pi directly and its all good now.
                      Shame on me but is there some rule of thumb about what you can and can’t do remotely. I have built 5 of these things with no issues using VNC until this background sreen issue. Even on this one, I’ve loaded multiple modules, jumbo sized fonts etc.

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                        sdetweil @ankonaskiff17
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                        @ankonaskiff17

                        where are u doing this? on pi, or remote(pc desktop)

                        what is the address: in config.js?

                        Sam

                        How to add modules

                        learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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