Replacing Login Screen
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From: TaliesinSoft on 14 Sep 2009 02:57 I''m running Snow Leopard (10.6.1) and would like to replace that purplish space theme login screen with something more to my liking. Prior to Snow Leopard I was using an applet called Loginox which did exactly what I wanted, allowing me to switch between the default login screen and one of my choosing. Unfortunately Loginox is not at this time compatible with Snow Leopard. I found another applet, Visage Login which purports to also allow replacing the login screen with one of your own choosing and which is stated to be Snow Leopard compatible. The problem I'm having is that although Visage Login does allow me to specify an alternate login screen, when I log in instead of getting the alternate image all I see is a medium blue screen. Is anyone else using Visage Login and are they having success with it? If so what is the secret? -- James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas
From: JF Mezei on 14 Sep 2009 03:05 TaliesinSoft wrote: > I''m running Snow Leopard (10.6.1) and would like to replace that purplish > space theme login screen with something more to my liking. It is a simple image in /System/Library/CoreServices DefaultDesktop.jpg If your replacement image is ~/Background.jpg (your home directory) Start Terminal and type: cd /System/Library/CoreServices sudo mv DefaultDesktop.jpg DefaultDesktop_old.jpg sudo cp ~/Background.jpg DefaultDesktop.jpg Next time you login, you will have your updated background image. Note that this gets zapped when you upgrade the OS.
From: TaliesinSoft on 14 Sep 2009 03:16 On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:05:55 -0500, JF Mezei wrote (in article <0066f964$0$30051$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>): > TaliesinSoft wrote: >> I''m running Snow Leopard (10.6.1) and would like to replace that >> purplish space theme login screen with something more to my liking. > > It is a simple image in /System/Library/CoreServices > > DefaultDesktop.jpg > > If your replacement image is ~/Background.jpg (your home directory) > > Start Terminal and type: > > cd /System/Library/CoreServices sudo mv DefaultDesktop.jpg > DefaultDesktop_old.jpg sudo cp ~/Background.jpg DefaultDesktop.jpg > > > Next time you login, you will have your updated background image. Note > that this gets zapped when you upgrade the OS. Many thanks for the response but I should have mentioned that my preference is to not use the terminal but to use an applet that has a "foolbroof" (And there are times when I am definitely the fool) interface, and that is why I tried an applet instead of the terminal. -- James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas
From: J.J. O'Shea on 14 Sep 2009 06:40 On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:57:33 -0400, TaliesinSoft wrote (in article <0001HW.C6D3538D0001232DB02A89BF(a)News.Individual.NET>): > I''m running Snow Leopard (10.6.1) and would like to replace that purplish > space theme login screen with something more to my liking. > > Prior to Snow Leopard I was using an applet called Loginox which did exactly > what I wanted, allowing me to switch between the default login screen and one > of my choosing. Unfortunately Loginox is not at this time compatible with > Snow Leopard. > > I found another applet, Visage Login which purports to also allow replacing > the login screen with one of your own choosing and which is stated to be Snow > Leopard compatible. > > The problem I'm having is that although Visage Login does allow me to specify > an alternate login screen, when I log in instead of getting the alternate > image all I see is a medium blue screen. > > Is anyone else using Visage Login and are they having success with it? If so > what is the secret? > > Loginox might help. -- email to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com.
From: Tom Stiller on 14 Sep 2009 06:50
In article <0001HW.C6D357EB00022954B02A89BF(a)News.Individual.NET>, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:05:55 -0500, JF Mezei wrote (in article > <0066f964$0$30051$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>): > > > TaliesinSoft wrote: > >> I''m running Snow Leopard (10.6.1) and would like to replace that > >> purplish space theme login screen with something more to my liking. > > > > It is a simple image in /System/Library/CoreServices > > > > DefaultDesktop.jpg > > > > If your replacement image is ~/Background.jpg (your home directory) > > > > Start Terminal and type: > > > > cd /System/Library/CoreServices sudo mv DefaultDesktop.jpg > > DefaultDesktop_old.jpg sudo cp ~/Background.jpg DefaultDesktop.jpg > > > > > > Next time you login, you will have your updated background image. Note > > that this gets zapped when you upgrade the OS. > > Many thanks for the response but I should have mentioned that my preference > is to not use the terminal but to use an applet that has a "foolbroof" (And > there are times when I am definitely the fool) interface, and that is why I > tried an applet instead of the terminal. Have a look at <http://www.loginox.branox.com/> -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF |