I’m sure lots of people are happy about that.Īnd I used purple in a screenshot above. If you really really love the color orange, that option is available. Here, you’ll find the option to change the skin’s color, which gives you a variety of options. To do this, we need to head back to the System Settings screen, this time selecting “Interface Settings.” Change the Interface Colorįinally, you can change the color overlay of the entire skin. You can really make your home screen feel like your own, without changing themes. There are a lot of options here, so dive in and play with it until you find something you like. You may need to close Kodi (using the power button, not Control+F4) and re-open it in order for these tweaks to work. See the rain in the background? That’s because I live in Oregon, and it’s February. And with this option enabled you can also select fanart packs to show while browsing things like genres, countries, and the weather.įor example: if you download a weather fanart pack, then check out the weather in the home screen, you’ll see different images behind everything depending on the conditions outside. It’s subtle, but some users really like it. For example, if you slide over to Star Trek: The Next Generation in the main menu, you’ll see a Star Trek image behind the interface. The first option, whether you should show media fanart as a background, will change the fanart behind your skin depending on the currently selected media.
Head to the “Artwork” section, however, and you can change this. The home screen, by default, has a static background image. You can also create custom categories based on a variety of criteria dive in and you’ll be up and running in no time.
I’m not a huge fan of the “Recently Added” section in the TV and Movie screens, because I don’t add things very often, so I removed it. You can delete any category pressing “C” to trigger the menu, then using the delete button. The add-on will eventually launch, showing you the sub-sections in your menu.
When you do, you’ll be prompted to install the Library Note Editor add-on. For example, if you don’t want to see “Recently Viewed” TV shows, or “Currently Watching,” you can remove them by clicking “Edit Categories” under TV Shows. You can even edit what categories show up under each of these sections on the main page. You can even completely remove categories like “Movies” and “TV Shows” from your main menu, if you want. Don’t see the point of having a “Video” section, when there’s already a “TV Shows” and “Movies” section? Turn it off. Head to the “Main menu items” submenu and you can turn off any of the screens that show up in the main menu.ĭon’t have music on your media center? You can turn the section off altogether. The real fun gets started in the other sub-menus.
This doesn’t seem like much, because it isn’t.
The other things you can tweak here are relatively straightforward: whether or not the slide animations take place, whether plot descriptions scroll on the screen when they’re too long to show up otherwise, and enabling media flags (the small icons that metadata like 1080p or surround sound). including whether the current outdoor temperature shows up below the clock at the top-right of the screen. To start, select Skin settings.įrom here you’ll be brought to the General section of the Skin settings. This will take you to the main System Settings screen. From the main screen in Kodi, click the gear near the top-left of the screen, beside the power button. Access the Theme Settingsįirst, let’s find the basic theme settings.
Here’s how to tweak Kodi to look just the way you want it, without installing a new skin. You can choose which sub-sections show up under sections like TV and Movies, and also pick custom backgrounds and colors. Unlike default themes of the past, Estuary gives you a lot of room to customize things.
This theme looks great, and is very functional, but it gets better. There are all kinds of new features, but the most obvious is the new default theme: Estuary.