July 2023

I got a support request for Time Out, my popular break reminder tool, asking to display a fixed image during the break.

Time Out uses HTML pages as break themes, so it is possible to have a fixed image as a theme — in fact the default theme, Icon, does just that, with the app icon.

So one way to have a fixed image is to:

1. Choose the Reveal Themes command at the end of the Theme pop-up menu to open the Themes folder in the Finder.
2. Duplicate the Icon theme folder and give it a new name.
3. Replace the icon.png file with your chosen image.
4. Edit the index.html to adjust the name and size of the…