Do you have way too many items on your desktop? Do you hate cleaning up that mess? Camouflage is the right utility for you. It hides all the icons and leaves nothing but the pure wallpaper
maybe you've enabled wallpaper cycling. Please make also sure you use the latest version. if you still got problems, maybe you should contact me by mail.
Karsten
Lovely little tool for adding clarity&focus for the working enviroment - BUT seems to steal ca. 20% of CPU all the time when desktop icons are hidden (not the camouflage.app itself, but WindowServer which appears/disappears the very instanst you switch the icon hiding on/off). Using SnowLeopard here, if that makes a difference.
So I switched to DeskShade instead, no CPU hits so far with that...
I used to use <a href="http://osx.iusethis.com/app/backdrop">Backdrop</a> but now use Camouflage instead, because I frequently hit cmd-option-H to hide all others apps. Problem is, it hides Backdrop as well, revealing my desktop icons. No good! This doesn't happen with Camouflage, so it gets my vote.
well the ram usage depends on the images that you are using. I tried to keep the memory usage low, but if you're using huge pictures and using a huge monitor this will reflect in the memory usage.
I really enjoy this app because it's a great way of focusing my attention on one specific task be it in a window or in an application.
A really nice tip I have to offer, if you have a laptop with SideTrack installed, is to map the hotkey to one of the screen corners - that way you can invoke Camouflage with just a trackpad corner tap.
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maybe you've enabled wallpaper cycling. Please make also sure you use the latest version. if you still got problems, maybe you should contact me by mail.
Karsten
Lovely little tool for adding clarity&focus for the working enviroment - BUT seems to steal ca. 20% of CPU all the time when desktop icons are hidden (not the camouflage.app itself, but WindowServer which appears/disappears the very instanst you switch the icon hiding on/off). Using SnowLeopard here, if that makes a difference.
So I switched to DeskShade instead, no CPU hits so far with that...
I used to use <a href="http://osx.iusethis.com/app/backdrop">Backdrop</a> but now use Camouflage instead, because I frequently hit cmd-option-H to hide all others apps. Problem is, it hides Backdrop as well, revealing my desktop icons. No good! This doesn't happen with Camouflage, so it gets my vote.
I just leave Camouflage on all the time and open a Finder window if I need something on my Desktop. I love a clean look.
For this job, isolator is also quite nice: eg: it can cover the desktop with black, with an certain percentage of transparency.
well the ram usage depends on the images that you are using. I tried to keep the memory usage low, but if you're using huge pictures and using a huge monitor this will reflect in the memory usage.
Awesome app, but tends to use a ton of RAM (100+ MB)
I really enjoy this app because it's a great way of focusing my attention on one specific task be it in a window or in an application.
A really nice tip I have to offer, if you have a laptop with SideTrack installed, is to map the hotkey to one of the screen corners - that way you can invoke Camouflage with just a trackpad corner tap.