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Let's see your XOOM Desktop Home / Wallpaper

ok, i'm having the same problem now that jcolt is having. I'm using ulead to make the icon's/text. in ulead i have the graphic saved at 150x50, but it comes out to small on the xoom using DV. What size should i save the graphic so its big enough for me to see on the xoom?
 
z28fun said:
That's what i thought, just wanted to make sure. Great job and way to think outside the box!

got another one for you. What size did you make your icons and backgroup? I tried 1280x800 but it's still to big.
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I made my icons 800 pixels wide, can't remember the height (I'm not at my home laptop to see). You have to remember though that the icons will be resized to whatever widget size you use in Desktop Visualizer.
 
Droid Ninja said:
ghoticov, you need to change the title of this thread from "Lets see your XOOM Desktop / Wallpaper" to "Tutorial: How to create my awesome desktop" :)

No need for us to fiddle around and post our hobo desktops... yours wins. We must have it!!
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LOL

Well, I have to give a lot of credit to a guy name CZonin on a few other boards. He inspired what I have and pointed me to the Minimalistic Text widget.

And mine doesn't win, everyone has their own taste. :)
 
jokeefe10 said:
thanks for the info....i can set it all up in the app but it isn't adding the widget to the homescreen. am i missing something? i added a 1x5 widget, edited it, saved it but nothing happens after that. probably something simple that i'm missing
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Minimalistic Text can be buggy at times, I assume it is because it is not optimized for Honeycomb yet.

One way I got around mine not showing up on my home screen was I created the widgets on a different screen and the dragged them to my main screen. I created them one by one on my far right screen (since I don't use it for anything). They all seemed to show up that way and I have had no issues.
 
Tech Addiction said:
How did you do those screen captures?
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Oh boy... lol

That is something that is out of my league, I needed A LOT of help to do it. Basically you have to install the Android SDK on your computer and then plug the xoom up, it will show as a device and you can choose "Device" then "Screen Capture".

You do not have to be rooted but you have to install the Android SDK and the latest Java. If you do a search on the XDA Xoom forums there is a huge thread there on it and it will explain it.
 
I couldn't ask a favor could I, I would like to get your Wallpaper but with the XOOM/Moto logo moved up about two lines of the text that's showing behind it. I want to add links below it but the logo is about a 1/4 in too low. If not no biggie. Thanks for all of the help with these desktops. I'm sure you have created some Monsters, me included LMAO.

Nevermind, I edited it in MS Paint.
 

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Tech Addiction said:
I couldn't ask a favor could I, I would like to get your Wallpaper but with the XOOM/Moto logo moved up about two lines of the text that's showing behind it. I want to add links below it but the logo is about a 1/4 in too low. If not no biggie. Thanks for all of the help with these desktops. I'm sure you have created some Monsters, me included LMAO.

Nevermind, I edited it in MS Paint.
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Nice!

I actually thought about making just TEXT icon links instead of the buttons look... just haven't done it. Not sure if I will though but yours looks nice!
 
anyone else having trouble installing Desktop Visualizer to the Xoom?

Its HERE on AppBrain but when you click "Download directly from the android market" it comes up as not found.
 
thanks for the files guys! as soon as i'm done i'll post a screen shot.

Droid Ninja, i think i downloaded it from the web-based app market. if that doesn't work try pulling the apk file from your phone and push it your xoom
 
Getting so frustrated trying to get the widgets to show up. Have tried probably 30 times and have got one to actually show up. Anyone got a tip?
 
OK I must be special. I'm used to dealing with what Apple says I can do. I've got everything done but the widgets(games,Inet,etc) is there anywhere that steps it through? I've got dv, your icons, and mt but can't figure this out
Sweet setup btw
 
You guys have to just keep trying. Its hard to explain how to do it. It took,me a day to figure it out then it just clicks. I had to create my MT widgets on a blank screen ( I only use one screen, the center one). Once I created them I dragged them to the main screen. Mt is buggy, probably because it is not optimized for Honeycomb but it will work.
 
ghoticov said:
You guys have to just keep trying. Its hard to explain how to do it. It took,me a day to figure it out then it just clicks. I had to create my MT widgets on a blank screen ( I only use one screen, the center one). Once I created them I dragged them to the main screen. Mt is buggy, probably because it is not optimized for Honeycomb but it will work.
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I have the batt and date,etc going. Its the rest I'm having issue with. Getting the games, net, part
 
Here is my latest, I believe this is my final one :) Here is the main screen:

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And here is what it looks like when I click on the GAMES, MULTIMEDIA, SOCIAL, APPS or TOOLS Widgets (Widget is CircleLauncher):

XOOM_Desktop1.jpg


I was using APS Organizer for the pop up before but it was horizontal, I really like the way CircleLauncher launches it as a circle and it is centered on the wallpaper.

I am not even using any of my other 4 screens, everything I need is right on the main screen. Once the twitter and facebook widget work, I may put those on one of the screens... who knows.
 
Zykhan said:
I have the batt and date,etc going. Its the rest I'm having issue with. Getting the games, net, part
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You are having a problem with DesktopVisualizer and APs Organizer? That was the easy part to me... I had a hard time with the date, time, battery and day widget (Minimalistic Text).
 
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