Dark Workspace Background

[NCOLEAMY]

     I've been searching for a setting to create a darker workspace background, but ...unless I'm overlooking something, Affinity hasn't implemented one yet.  

     It seems that dragging out a rectangle is obviously the go to work around for everyone, but (my personal opinion only) I'm just not 'feeling it' with a bland background.

     I've gone ahead and made my own background. Yes, importing it each time I work with Affinity is a bit on the annoying side, but I thought I'd share it here. 

[walt.farrell]

Are you talking about a dark workspace background or a dark document background?

For the workspace (which contains the document) you should be able to use the Dark User Interface, via the application Settings (or Preferences in V1).

 

[NCOLEAMY]

The Heading reads Workspace Background, but if I'm using the wrong nomenclature, then I apologize.  A picture is worth a 1000 words, so I hope this clears up any misunderstanding.

[walt.farrell]

The workspace is the intent dark area in your upper-left screenshot. 

In your upper-right screenshot you have  created or opened a document which contains an Artboard. 

In your lower-left screenshot you have created or opened a document without an Artboard.

And finally you have document with your layer added to make the document background darker.

Thanks for the screenshots to clarify this.

 

[markw]

If you are on a Mac the default checker Transparency background can be “hacked” to something darker.
See loukash’s post here:

As always with any kind of “hack” like this you do so at your own risk!

[loukash]

Just now, markw said:

See loukash’s post here

Yeah, still works with v2.1.1 on MacOS Ventura.

2 minutes ago, markw said:

As always with any kind of “hack” like this you do so at your own risk!

The Terminal.app must be your friend!

[markw]

@loukash In my experiment I just used; Go To Folder… in Finder and used the path you posted in your thread without using Terminal at all. Worked fine.

[NCOLEAMY]

Thank You  Thank You  Thank You!  I searched for a post, but didn't see that one.  Maybe my searching skills need a refresher course.  However, ... searching the app's Contents Folder, I managed to follow that path easily enough.  (The Go To Folder just did not want to cooperate.)

For the Windows folks, the background that I created is basically the same thing, just already tiled and much more condensed.  Grab it if you want to check it out. You'll just have to resize it for your needs.