How to Add Images to BioniX

Add your pictures once, or let BioniX watch a folder and add new pictures by itself.

Your Images Live in the Playlist

The playlist is the list of thumbnails in the BioniX window. BioniX picks its wallpapers from the playlist. Copying a picture into a folder on your disk does not add it to the playlist; one of the ways below does.

Three Ways to Add Images

1. A whole folder

  1. In the main menu, choose Playlist → Add wallpapers → Add images from folder... (shortcut Ctrl+D). You can also right-click in the playlist and choose Add images from folder...
  2. Pick the folder. BioniX adds every image in that folder and in all its sub-folders.

2. Single images

  1. Choose Playlist → Add wallpapers → Add single image... (shortcut Insert).
  2. Select one image, or several at once with Ctrl-click, and press Open.

3. Drag and drop

Drag images or whole folders from Windows Explorer and drop them on the BioniX window. You can also drag an image straight from your web browser.

Tip: hold Shift while you drop, and the dropped images replace the whole playlist instead of being added to it.

Then save the playlist

Press Ctrl+S or choose Playlist → Save playlist. BioniX also saves the playlist when you close it, as long as Automatically save the playlist stays ticked in the playlist settings (it is on by default).

Where Is the Screensaver Folder?

There is none. The BioniX screensaver shows the playlist that BioniX loaded or saved last. To get new pictures into the screensaver, add them to the playlist as shown above and save it with Ctrl+S. The screensaver shows them the next time it starts.

What Is the “BioniX categories” Folder?

You may find a folder named BioniX categories inside your Pictures folder. It is where the Wallpaper → Move to folder command puts the images you sort into categories. Copying files into it does not add them to the playlist: add them with one of the three ways above.

Let BioniX Watch a Folder (Lock on Folder)

The playlist follows one folder: drop a picture into it and it shows up in BioniX.

  1. In the main menu, choose Interface → Full graphic user interface. The Lock on folder button is only shown in the full interface.
  2. On the playlist toolbar, click the Lock on folder button (hover over the buttons to see their names).
  3. In the Folder field, choose the folder you want BioniX to watch.
  4. Press Start, then OK.

From now on, every picture you copy into that folder is added to the playlist, and every picture you delete or rename there is removed or renamed in the playlist too. The lock stays on when you restart BioniX.

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