Wallpapers, colours, Settings, backup and reset.
Wallpapers
Bridge's wallpapers live inside Bridge and never change your Windows desktop.
- Built in: live video wallpapers come with Bridge.
- Your own: put pictures or videos in Pictures\Bridge Wallpapers, or choose Set as wallpaper in Bridge Files.
- Change automatically: Settings › Wallpaper can switch wallpapers every few minutes, hours or days, in order or shuffled.
Your look
Settings › Appearance has three looks:
- Dynamic (the standard): Bridge takes its colours from your wallpaper. You can set how strong the glass is, dim the wallpaper, or switch glass off for solid panels.
- Static: one colour you pick, and how strong the glass is.
- Custom: a theme from Bridge Themes, which every Bridge app follows. Without Bridge Themes installed, this shows where to get it.
Text size is in Settings › Appearance too.
Settings
Open Settings from the gear in the top bar, or Ctrl+,.
- Find a setting: the field at the top of the list (Ctrl+F) searches every setting by name.
- Changes apply straight away; there's no Save button.
- Each app and add-on brings its own section.
- Settings › Apps lists what you've installed. For each one: whether it shows in Bridge, tab or icon, what it's allowed to do, Update and Remove.
Back up and move to another PC
Settings › General › Backup › Export… saves one file with your settings and those of every app: bookmarks, web apps, wallpaper choices, game customisations and more. It doesn't include passwords or website sign-ins.
On the other PC, install Bridge and choose Import…. Bridge offers to download any apps the backup names that aren't installed yet.
Start over
Settings › General › Factory reset clears all of Bridge's data and starts again from setup. It asks first. If Bridge Mode is on, Windows is put back first.