Replacing Login Screen
in [Mac Applications]
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From: TaliesinSoft on 14 Sep 2009 09:49 On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:59:26 -0500, Michael Vilain wrote (in article <vilain-593BF1.05592614092009(a)individual.net>): [responding to my posting that both Loginox and Visage Login fail to replace the Snow Leopard login screen] > Guess your options right now are "Use the Terminal" or do without. > > Which one will Tali choose? > > Tune in next week to find out... In addition to Loginox and Visage Login the suggested "drag and drop" solution posted elsewhere in this thread also failed to work. Given that I would like to show how to change the Snow Leopard login screen to some quite novice users I'm quite reluctant to suggest a "just go to the terminal and...." solution. -- James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas
From: TaliesinSoft on 14 Sep 2009 09:52 On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:44:04 -0500, Michelle Steiner wrote (in article <michelle-8A82ED.06440314092009(a)news.eternal-september.org>): > In article <0001HW.C6D3B1C10000ABEAB01029BF(a)News.Individual.NET>, > TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote: > >> Unfortunately dragging and dropping a new image into >> /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg doesn't seem to work. >> After doing such, and when restarting, the original login screen is >> replaced with one that is just dark blue and not with the dragged and >> dropped jpg. If one then restores the original DefaultDesktop.jpg then >> following a restart that image appears > > Is the new file correctly named as "DefaultDesktop.jpg"? Is it in fact a > jpg file? Does it have the same dimensions as the one it is replacing? The answer is "yes" to all three! -- James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas
From: TaliesinSoft on 14 Sep 2009 10:16 On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:52:22 -0500, Tim Lance wrote (in article <7h704mF2pvtfqU1(a)mid.individual.net>): [responding to my having asked] >> Is anyone else using Visage Login and are they having success with it? If >> so what is the secret? > Yeah, proper name, type, and size works here. Could you elaborate? I'm a licensed user of Visage Login and have it placed in the Applications folder. It allows me to drag an image into the "background", but when I then select "Save" that image disappears. The image dragged in has the name DefaultDesktop, its type is .jpg, and its size is 2560 by 1600. -- James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas
From: Stefan on 14 Sep 2009 10:21 TaliesinSoft wrote: >>> Unfortunately dragging and dropping a new image into >>> /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg doesn't seem to work. It does work here (OS 10.6.1).
From: TaliesinSoft on 14 Sep 2009 11:11
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:21:09 -0500, Stefan wrote (in article <7cbfd$4aae5155$54497f6d$27789(a)news.hispeed.ch>): > TaliesinSoft wrote: > >>>> Unfortunately dragging and dropping a new image into >>>> /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg doesn't seem to work. > > It does work here (OS 10.6.1). I'm thinking that the applet Visage Login did something to muddle things up in regards to the login screen. I removed Visage Login using AppZapper but that didn't make any difference. Using Time Machine I restored the DefaultDesktop.jpg from a time before the installation of Visage Login and that too didn't make any difference. As of now either the default, or dragging and dropping a new DefaultDesktop.jpg into CoreServices has no effect. Regardless of the image the result upon restart or shutdown and start is the same, a medium dark blue login screen. I've emailed the person responsible for Visage Login and will post here what information I'm provided. -- James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas |