<div dir="ltr"><div>I made the change suggested below last night and it worked as expected. I now have the background image, but it&#39;s faint enough that it doesn&#39;t interfere with the foreground text at all.<br><br></div>Thanks!<br><div><br><br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:12 AM,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mythtv@phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk" target="_blank">mythtv@phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Quoting Tom Wheeler &lt;<a href="mailto:tomwheel@gmail.com" target="_blank">tomwheel@gmail.com</a>&gt;:<br>
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I didn&#39;t really dislike the artwork itself, it&#39;s just that the way it was<br>
implemented in this theme made text nearly unreadable (i.e. white text on<br>
backgrounds that were often light in color). Perhaps one day I will modify<br>
the theme to set an alpha level so that the artwork can be shown without<br>
affecting readability.<br>
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OK: cat PATCHES/dimfanart.patch<br>
diff --git a/mythtv/themes/MythCenter-<u></u>wide/recordings-ui.xml b/mythtv/themes/MythCenter-<u></u>wide/recordings-ui.xml<br>
index f5729a6..2e8cd2c 100644<br>
--- a/mythtv/themes/MythCenter-<u></u>wide/recordings-ui.xml<br>
+++ b/mythtv/themes/MythCenter-<u></u>wide/recordings-ui.xml<br>
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@<br>
<br>
         &lt;imagetype name=&quot;fanart&quot;&gt;<br>
             &lt;area&gt;0,0,100%,100%&lt;/area&gt;<br>
+            &lt;alpha&gt;85&lt;/alpha&gt;<br>
             &lt;filename /&gt;<br>
         &lt;/imagetype&gt;</blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div>