Replacing Login Screen
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From: Tom Stiller on 14 Sep 2009 13:31 In article <0001HW.C6D3C73800017581B01029BF(a)News.Individual.NET>, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote: > 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. It may be that Visage Login modified (and muddled) the defaults preferences. If you were not adverse to using the Terminal, you could: defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow \ DesktopPicture </path/to/replacement/image/file.jpg> -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
From: TaliesinSoft on 14 Sep 2009 13:40 On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:31:38 -0500, Tom Stiller wrote (in article <tom_stiller-9366F3.13313914092009(a)news.verizon.net>): [continuing in the thread regarding my problems with setting the login screen] > It may be that Visage Login modified (and muddled) the defaults > preferences. > > If you were not adverse to using the Terminal, you could: > defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow \ > DesktopPicture </path/to/replacement/image/file.jpg> I had a pleasant email exchange with Keaka Jackson who I suspect is the author of Visage Login. The end result, based on looking at console logs, was that apparently Visage Login needs to be run from my administrative account and not one of my user accounts. And indeed, running it from the user account worked. I haven't tested whether Visage Login does anything that would disable the dragging of a JPG image named DefaultDesktop.jpg to Core Services. -- James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas
From: Tom Stiller on 14 Sep 2009 15:12 In article <0001HW.C6D3EA4D0000F87FB01029BF(a)News.Individual.NET>, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:31:38 -0500, Tom Stiller wrote > (in article <tom_stiller-9366F3.13313914092009(a)news.verizon.net>): > > [continuing in the thread regarding my problems with setting the login > screen] > > > It may be that Visage Login modified (and muddled) the defaults > > preferences. > > > > If you were not adverse to using the Terminal, you could: > > defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow \ > > DesktopPicture </path/to/replacement/image/file.jpg> > > I had a pleasant email exchange with Keaka Jackson who I suspect is the > author of Visage Login. The end result, based on looking at console logs, was > that apparently Visage Login needs to be run from my administrative account > and not one of my user accounts. And indeed, running it from the user account I assume you meant ------------------------------------------------admin > worked. I haven't tested whether Visage Login does anything that would > disable the dragging of a JPG image named DefaultDesktop.jpg to Core > Services. Anyway, I'm glad it all worked out. -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
From: JF Mezei on 14 Sep 2009 15:25 TaliesinSoft wrote: > I'm thinking that the applet Visage Login did something to muddle things up > in regards to the login screen. It is possible that that software, instead of replacing the defaultdesktop.jpg, updated the plist file to point to a different file location. This would require another terminal command called "defaults write" to get the system to use whatever image file you want. YOu would have to use google for this, but beware that I am not sure what you find with google would be 10.6 compatible. defaults read subsystem key can get you the current value for an attribute.
From: JF Mezei on 14 Sep 2009 15:33
>> If you were not adverse to using the Terminal, you could: >> defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow \ >> DesktopPicture </path/to/replacement/image/file.jpg> BTW: defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow { OptimizerLastRunForBuild = 21053184; OptimizerLastRunForSystem = 168165632; RetriesUntilHint = 3; lastUser = loggedIn; lastUserName = myusername; } So it looks like by default, there isn't a "DesktopPicture" entry in that plist. |