General tab
You can change interface settings, the ways of news navigation and some time intervals in the tab General.
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- Language - choose the interface language in the dropdown list.
- Enable Online News Agent - starts up Agent in the System Tray for providing additional functions. If this option is chosen the Agent will be started up automatically each time when Windows is starting. Read more about Online News Agent in "What is the Online News Agent".
- Enable mouse moving when the Screensaver is running - tick this option if you don't want the Screensaver to be immediately closed while moving mouse. You could leave the Screensaver then only by pressing any key.
- Enable keyboard navigation - tick this option for enabling possibility of switching between the news looked through with some definite keys in the keyboard. Read more in How to use keyboard for navigation.
- Download a next channel automatically after last topic of the current channel - allows you cycle all channels you have selected. If you deselect this option the new channel will be downloaded after the 'Download news every XXXX min' interval.
- Download news every XXXX min - type in here the number of minutes after which the current news will be refreshed (if only one source is chosen) or next news will appear (if several news sources are chosen). It is 5 minutes by default.
- Select a next news from XXXX sec - it determines in how many seconds one news title will be changed to the next. It is 10 seconds by default.
- Change background image every XXXX min - it determines in how many minutes one background image will be changed to another. It is 1 minute by default.