Opening the settings window

To configure your Sonar Screensaver you must open its configuration window. To open settings window, go to the "Display" applet on the Windows control panel. Switch to "Screensaver" tab there and choose the Sonar Screensaver from a list of the screen savers installed on your system. Press the "Settings..." button and Sonar Screensaver settings window will open.

You will see a dialog window with five tabs and buttons"OK", "Cancel" and "Help". To get help on particular control element on a window, click with the right mouse button on it and choose "What is this?" context menu item. To get help for a whole tab page, press the "Help" button or F1 key.

Settings tab pages

Settings Common settings tab page details...

This tab page contains controls for setting overall model parameters like traffic intensity, beam rotation speed, sounds, colors and model elements.

On-screen message On-screen message tab page details...

This tab page has settings for the "on-screen-message" feature. You can choose message text, amount of time for which you plan to leave your PC, set visual options and create shortcuts for running screensaver with your message.

Display Display tab page details...

There you can choose desired smoothness of animation in frames per second (FPS) and set up your display: resolution, color quality, refresh rate and graphics engine. If you have more than one monitor connected to your PC, you will be able to set their parameters separately and choose which of them should show the animation and which should show black screen or left untouched.

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