How do i change the Skin on OpenElec for my Raspberry PI?

How do i change the Skin on OpenElec for my Raspberry PI?

Changing from the default Skin to a custom skin on your Raspberry Pi is actually fairly straight forward, just follow the instructions below.

You should be aware that some skins are more resource intensive than others and as you are probably aware the PI is not designed to be particularly powerful, so you should if possible keep the skin as simple as possible.

The Default skin is currently – Confluence.

  1. Plug in your leads and boot up your Pi.
  2. Navigate to SYSTEM > Settings > Appearance > Skin.Raspberry PI
  3. Highlight and select “skin” on the right hand pane.
  4. A window will appear showing all the currently installed Skins on your Box.
  5. Click Get “Get More”
  6. A new window will appear showing a list of all the skins currently available on the XMBC servers.
  7. Move up and down the list and you will see a small preview with a description and rating appear on the right hand side.
  8. Once you have found the New Skin you would like to try highlight it and press enter / click.
  9. A new window will appear with various options select install.
  10. It will drop you back to the original list of skins, but you will now see a download percentage counter “Downloading 20%” next to your new chosen skin.
  11. When it has finished you will see the  “Downloading 20%” become “enabled”.
  12. Drop back to the previous window or
        1. Navigate to SYSTEM > Settings > Appearance > Skin.
        2. Highlight and select “skin” on the right hand pane.
  13. You will now see your new skin next to “confluence” in the list – click on you new skin.
  14. A new window will pop up allowing you to customise it, i would suggest for now just leave it on the default settings until you get used to the new skin.

That is it, your new skin has been changed.

 

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