custom.css ......body???

[sdetweil]

@piki IF you make the file to appear (copy or link) IN the MM tree THEN you can make it work thru css only

the MM http server is configured ONLY for the MagicMirror tree and forward…
not just anywhere in the file system

[piki]

but in which line in the tree should I edit (configure) just write the path there…or?

[sdetweil]

@piki sorry, don’t understand the question

put your file in ~/MagicMirror

then your css url will be
http://localhost:mm_config_port (usually 8080)/filename(whatever the name of the file is in the MagicMirror folder)

http://localhost:8080/somefile.jpg
or whatever you call it

if you don’t want to copy it then

cd ~/MagicMirror
sudo ln -s /wherever_the_actual_file_is somefile.jpg

that will create a link for the file (from the booted sd card) to the MagicMirror folder
as somefile.jpg

you can name it whatever you want with whatever type it is: gif, png, jpg…

[piki]

sku.jpg (its my file) and is found in MagicMirror/sku.jpg

[sdetweil]

@piki so
http://localhost:8080/sku.jpg

[piki]

http://localhost:8080/sku.jpg

and should I enter that in custom .css?

body {
background-image : url(‘http://localhost:8080/sku.jpg.’);
background-size: cover;

[sdetweil]

@piki yes,
you should be able to use the developers window to add that to test out

select the body element and add in top right

[piki]

I copied it directly into custom .css…but it still doesn’t work

[sdetweil]

@piki can you show the custom.css entry

[piki]

body {
background-image : uurl(‘http://localhost:8080/sku.jpg.’);
background-size: cover;

}