Desktop Wallpaper 4k
Teodolinda Mattson
I updated to 10.8 and for some reason my desktop wallpaper will default to the Galaxy wallpaper whenever I restart or shutdown. I will change the wallpaper to something else, restart or shutdown and the Galaxy wallpaper will be back. I re-installed mountain lion and it has not resolved the issue. Anybosy experiencing the same issues?
You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is marked solved and is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.
Is there an option to not have to log out by using the term? ex. sudo killall -HUP ? or sudo kill after doing a ps -? The reason is that I don't to have to shut down some processes that I have running to log out...ex when you type "uptime" in term, you have your total days, users, load averages, which are now at 39 for my system. This seems to be a 'bug' but I'm not calling it that. Thoughts on another option without logout? I was thinking about removing the default file of El Capitan but knowing developers I am sure there will be a leak somewhere if I do.
MAC OS X Lion / Mountain Lion does not save your wallpaper on the native HDD, rather tries to load the wallpaper from the original HDD, i guess only the path to the wallpaper is saved in the OS X settings.
I have no such file in Library:Preferences either. I'm running Mountain Lion and my desktop keeps reverting to an old image I was using before upgrading from Lion. I keep finding the same answers to this question, but none of them seem to work for me.
Nope. I use wallpapers randomly selected from my iPhoto albums. I have 4 workspaces. Spaces 2, 3 and 4 have the wallpaper correctly applied. The main workspace still reverts back to the default galaxy wallpaper. I would be glad to help out with any diagnostics and troubleshooting info if you want to request it.
Yes we have been able to have two distinct images for the wallpapers for LockScreen and Desktop before Sonoma. I've had an image for Lock Screen (sign in screen) wallpaper and a different image for desktop wallpaper. We seem to have lost that ability with Sonoma - a great loss. Many of us use a company logo or image for the lock screen and a personal image for the desktop.
the Lock Screen wallpaper will match the desktop wallpaper of the account you are logged in to when you lock your screen. the login screen is a different matter. but you use the Lock Screen system preferences to change the login window.
if you are the sole user (not even a guest account) AND file vault is turned off you can go to System Settings, in the Lock Screen tab, and set "Login window shows" to "List of users". then your login screen matches your desktop background.
if you are using file vault or have multiple users, the above will not work. if that's your situation, you will need to wait for apple to address this. it may be worth your time to send feedback directly to apple. Feedback - macOS - Apple
Also, on my MacBook Pro M1 running Sonoma 14.0, they have replaced the "Mandatory" image on the Boot Screen with my Personal Desktop image. That is exactly the problem. I don't want it to be my personal image, but I do want the generic. I also do want the Desktop to be my chosen personal image as I had prior to Sonoma.
Today, every time I reset or turn off and back on the computer, the secondary desktop wallpaper reverts back to a desktop I had prior (right after OS instal a few days ago). The 1st display wallpaper stays. The STRANGE thing is, when I am logging in after reset or turn on, the wallpaper is correct ! Then once I finish log in, it zaps to the older wallpaper.
Check out this page: Change the desktop picture (background) on your Mac. Make sure everything is set up correctly. Notice that in Mojave "you can also choose from Dynamic Desktop images, which automatically change throughout the day based on the time of day in your location."
Hey Joseph. Thanks for chiming in. As much as I appreciate the input and help, it took so long to get a response here I actually solved the issue on accident a day or two later. But it was solved the worse way something can be solved. It solved itself ! lol I did nothing.
I basically just kept resetting as I did (and yes I was doing it all right and according to proper protocol.) and one time it just has stayed. The only thing that I can think of is, since this is a new OS for me on a freshly cleaned drive, I have been reinstalling tons of my apps for work (Pro Tools, hundreds of plugins, etc..) so its possible one of them installs made something goofy for a sec and then the next instal fixed it ? IDK ? But its literally all that's changed.
Odd, I do have to say one thing - what happened to these forums ? Used to be way more popular, I used to get responses within minutes to a hour max. Within a day there'd be several responses. Now, this is the second time I've posted something and I just hear crickets and see tumbleweeds blowing by.
Apple got the sign in procedure like we are logging into our bank, now no one wants to come here. Its a real hassle just to log into a forum, this aint the pentagon, come on ! lol. Its really dead here. Might have to choose to find a new more populated forum on Apple help. Any suggestions ?
I have done some testing and can nearly achieve what I want but for some reason the desktop wallpaper goes from being a stretched fit to centred, im pretty sure i could resolve this by having a correct sized wallaper if i wanted to force a specific one ( which i dont ) does anyone know of a way around this ?
Hi Shepherd getting it to work isnt the issue, i can do this and it keeps the wallpaper preferences, but what is does is displays that wallpaper i.e the windows default wallpaper at its actual size which is much smaller than the resolution of my screen. in other words it stops strecthing the wallpaper to fill the screen, it gives me a lovely black border.
Source and exe are included. It is a program that runs as a process really small foot print. By default sits in top right corner. Look for compinfo.exe in processes if you want to get rid of it. I deploy this with my start up group policy. Hopefully you know how to code in vb so you can make changes to your needs :).
Cheers, just tried it but same thing mate, we run 27" screens with a high resolutions which appears to be the issue but i cant believe theres no work around for this, i cant be the only one using this on a 27" screen with hi-res
Once the background.xml file has been generated, right-click on the desktop, select Change Background Image, click Add..., then navigate to the directory containing the XML file. Just above the "Open" button change the selector from "Image" to "All files", then select the background.xml file and click on the "Open" button. The file can be renamed to be more descriptive, such as my_family.xml, landscapes-3.xml, etc., allowing one to have multiple slide show playlists.
Ok here is how I did it, which is probably not the best way to do it but it worked and I didn't have to install anything to do it. Back in 11.10 I found the below python script (slideshow.py) which generates a slideshow.xml file (run from directory with the images in it). This is still the file needed in 12.04 but you also need another XML file. Put the XML file generated by slideshow.py script in /usr/share/backgrounds/contest and chown it to root. Once that is done you'll need to run the second python script (wallpapers.py) which was adapted from the first. Put the file generated from wallpapers.py in /usr/share/gnome-background-properties and again chown it to root. At that point you should be able to go into "System Settings" -> Appearance and pick your slideshow or any of the pics in it.
According to this OMG! Ubuntu post, you have for example 'Wallpaper Gallery'. It takes as input data tagged photos from your Shotwell gallery. Therefore it becomes very easy to add & remove photos for instance.
contains everything. Your file must begin with it and end with . It's called the root tag.
defines when the diaporama starts. A precise date must be given, any date.
contains the definition of a still image.
is used to fade from one image to the other.
gives in seconds the time during witch the picture is displayed or the fading time.
contains a single image to show as still.
and contain single images which are respectively the one at the beginning and at the end of a fading.
Visit the gnome-extension homepage and switch the slide on. Afterwards you can configure the extension to change the background's change time and the backgrounds itselfs. To do so open gnome-tweaks, go to the Extension tab and click on the Configure icon of the desk-changer.
After seeing this request, I was curious about a solution and found something to be able to get your wallpaper image to be a part of the default wallpaper selection when going into System Settings >> Appearances. Follow the steps below in a terminal:
Once you are in that file, you will see tags called and that is around the other tags like and . You will need to copy that and paste it right below that entry. Once done, you should edit that extra entry you added to match what you want. An example can be found below:
In this example, I made changes to the , , , and information to match what I needed for the wallpaper I wanted. Now I see the wallpaper as a default selection in the wallpaper section of the System Settings -> Appearance GUI:
In case you use gnome-shell (version > 3.12, default in Ubuntu 17.10 and later), use this nice extension. This extension fetches a random wallpaper from an online source and sets it as desktop background. The desktop background can be updated periodically or manually.
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