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From: John Varela on 7 May 2010 15:36
On Fri, 7 May 2010 14:44:45 UTC, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com>
wrote:

> In article <84hk2pF2iaU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
> TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote:
>
> > Every few weeks I change the images used for my background, usually
> > having at one time five to ten images which are each displayed for a
> > minute. These same images are used for each of my several user and
> > single administrator accounts. At the same time as I set a new set of
> > background images I also change the login screen to display one from
> > the new set.
> >
> > The oddity is that occasionally, perhaps about one out of six times,
> > when I log into an account instead of one of the background images I
> > have set the initial background image will be the purple skyscape,
> > Apple's default background. After a minute has passed then the
> > backgrounds will rotate amongst the set I have installed.
> >
> > So, my query is what, if anything, can I do so that the purple skyscape
> > doesn't appear when I log onto one of my accounts?
> >
> > Many thanks in advance for suggestions and such.
>
> Hmm.. That never happens to me.

By "background" we mean that which is set in System Preferences >
Desktop & Screen Saver > Desktop, do we not? I have found that
function to be flaky.

I have two monitors and for Screen Saver (not Desktop) I have the
system make random choices from the almost 10,000 photos in my
iPhoto library. Works like a charm. Very entertaining.

Looking at the Desktop preferences, one would expect to be able to
make a similar selection, with various options for the frequency
with which the picture changes. Doesn't work, or only works
erratically. I've reported it to Apple. OS X 10.6.3, iPhoto 8.1.2.

--
John Varela

From: Tom Stiller on 7 May 2010 17:46
In article <84ir90Fb5aU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote:

> On 2010-05-07 08:24:37 -0500, Tom Stiller said:
>
> [in response to my opening posting query in this thread]
>
> >> So, my query is what, if anything, can I do so that the purple skyscape
> >> doesn't appear when I log onto one of my accounts?
> >
> > Find the image file and delete or rename it.
>
> Where would that image file be located? In my opening posting I didn't
> mention that I've also replaced the image file at
> /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg with an image other
> that the purple skyscape. To do that I used the applet Loginox which
> saves the purple skyscape somewhere so it can later be restored as the
> default desktop image.

Is that the one Apple calls "Aurora"?

--
Tom Stiller

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From: Wes Groleau on 7 May 2010 18:28
On 05-07-2010 11:52, TaliesinSoft wrote:
> the purple skyscape. To do that I used the applet Loginox which saves
> the purple skyscape somewhere so it can later be restored as the default
> desktop image.

Storing the file "somewhere" won't help if it is in the same volume and
accessed through a Finder alias.

--
Wes Groleau

"In the field of language teaching, Method A is the logical
contradiction of Method B: if the assumptions from which
A claims to be derived are correct, then B cannot work,
and vice versa. Yet one colleague is getting excellent
results with A and another is getting comparable results
with B. How is this possible?"
-- Earl W. Stevick
From: TaliesinSoft on 7 May 2010 19:01
On 2010-05-07 16:46:15 -0500, Tom Stiller said:

> In article <84ir90Fb5aU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
> TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2010-05-07 08:24:37 -0500, Tom Stiller said:
>>
>> [in response to my opening posting query in this thread]
>>
>>>> So, my query is what, if anything, can I do so that the purple skyscape
>>>> doesn't appear when I log onto one of my accounts?
>>>
>>> Find the image file and delete or rename it.
>>
>> Where would that image file be located? In my opening posting I didn't
>> mention that I've also replaced the image file at
>> /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg with an image other
>> that the purple skyscape. To do that I used the applet Loginox which
>> saves the purple skyscape somewhere so it can later be restored as the
>> default desktop image.
>
> Is that the one Apple calls "Aurora"?

To my recollection, yes. And the question remains as to just where that
file is located so that it occasionally appears as my desktop, but only
after I logon to an inactive account and only for a minute until the
images I've installed using the Desktop & Screen Saver in System
Preferences.

--
James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- taliesinsoft(a)me.com

From: TaliesinSoft on 7 May 2010 19:07
On 2010-05-07 17:28:31 -0500, Wes Groleau said:

> On 05-07-2010 11:52, TaliesinSoft wrote:
>> the purple skyscape. To do that I used the applet Loginox which saves
>> the purple skyscape somewhere so it can later be restored as the default
>> desktop image.
>
> Storing the file "somewhere" won't help if it is in the same volume and
> accessed through a Finder alias.

Loginox replaces the login background file in
/System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop with a copy of a file of
your choosing. When it does so it keeps a copy of the aforementioned
DefaultDesktop file somewhere, there being an option to restore it to
use if one so chooses. Where that file is and what it is called I do
not know.

--
James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- taliesinsoft(a)me.com

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