MacBook Pro :: Can't Change Desktop Background Anymore
Jun 20, 2012I can't change my Desktop Background anymore, Used The Diptic app to create a collage and now i cannot change my desktop picture, on Mac Book pro
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MacBook Pro
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MacBook :: Can't Change Desktop Background
Sep 7, 2009Whenever I try to right click on the desktop and click "change desktop background" it just plays the error sound. And theres no longer an option for it in system preferences. The only way I can change it is if I select an image from the internet, and right click on it, and select "set as.."
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Feb 26, 2012How do I change my desktop background?
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook Pro :: Way To Change Desktop Background
Mar 18, 2012I have gone to Desktop through System Preferences and then followed obvious suggestions and selected another desktop background, eg Beach but the background does not change. There is no Apply button or OK but it just doesnt change.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook Pro :: Can't Change Desktop Background
Apr 2, 2012When I try to select a new image (from existing apple folder) or if I want to randomize the desktop so it changes images every minute etc, nothing happens. My laptop is quite new and everything is alwasy up-to-date and clean...
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 2.2GHz Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM
MacBook Pro :: Change Desktop Background Every Minute?
Jan 6, 2011If I change the desktop background in the interval of every one minute, will it have a impact on battery life? I notice there's even an option for every 5 seconds. Surely, Apple must feel confident in the battery life of the MBP if there is such an option. I like seeing a new image every so often, but don't want to sacrifice too much battery. What do you feel is the best setting? Every 5 minutes? 15 min? 30 min? 1 hour?
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Aug 17, 2010When my 2010 macbook pro changes graphics card it removes my background and sets it as a blue screen. Everything else still works fine and if i go back and set the desktop background again it sets it until next time the card changes!
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Jun 22, 2012I oped system preferences and it crashes, I open activity monitor and force quit it and then open it again and it crashes.. what can i do? i got a mac book pro 2.4 ghz intel i5 10.7.4 4 b
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Mac Mini :: Cannot Change Desktop Background
Dec 25, 2010I've a mac mini, with two 24" Cinema Led displays. One display is connected directly to the mac mini (main screen) and one display is connected through a DVI-to-Mini-DisplayPort Converter from Athlona (secondary screen). Yesterday I rebooted the machine and since the reboot I cannot change my main screens desktop background. I tried every solution from several fora on the net, but did not succeed to change it. I only have a solid gray colored background. Normally, when you select a wallpaper, it instantly changes the background. Now it doesn't. You can see it change in the "Desktop & Screensaver" menu, but nothing happens in real. Changing the background of the secondary screen is no problem. When I restart the machine, you can see that the solid gray colored background goes away and the original chosen wallpaper appears, but then closes because I restarted the system. On start-up of the system, you can see the original chosen wallpaper again for a few seconds, while the machine starts applications to open at login, and then suddenly changes again into the solid gray colored background.
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May 16, 2012My desktop background seems to be locked. I'm not able to change it anymore...
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Mar 25, 2012I am unable to change my desktop background. I can select whatever picture I want as the background in system preferences, but it won't actually change the background. Tried updating and restarting, did not work. Would there be any files or settings I have interfering with this?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Can't Change Desktop Background In It
Mar 27, 2012I'm unable to change my desktop background picture or screensaver in System Preferences since the last update?
Info:MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8), or screensaver
Intel Mac :: Trying To Change Desktop Background But It Keeps Crashing
Apr 28, 2012I tried everything but no luck, I use utility to correct permissions but that did not work. I think the one problem is I have too many photos on computer is there anyway to do it by key command?
View 3 Replies View RelatedOS X V10.7 Lion :: Change Desktop Background Picture?
Jul 5, 2012I have Lion I have Aperture 3.
I set the desktop background picture to photos on Aperture through right mouse clicking to "change destop background".
All the photos fhrough Aperture are present. I click the photo and it changes. I also use the screen saver using aperture photos. All of these photos are on an external drive and has been working flawlessly with Lion on my older imac.
Last week I bought a new imac with Lion. Everything is working the same as above except for when I shut down the imac. When I boot it back up, the mac supplied image of the milky way appears and the photo I had on the desktop prior to shutting down has been replaced by this.
The external is mounted and the screen saver after 5 minutes will show my Aperture photos....it is just the desktop photo that has been replaced..
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Mac OS X (10.7.4), 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
OS X Technologies :: Change Desktop Background In Apple-script In 10.7?
Mar 23, 2012I'm just now upgrading from 10.6 to 10.7, and I'm having trouble with a script that I wrote that worked fine under 10.6. In part, it executes the following command: osascript -e "tell application "Finder" to set destop picture to POSIX file "<path>"" to change the desktop background image to one of two different files based on other conditions. In 10.7, this command completes with no error code, but it only changes the background of one of my four desktops. Is there a way to programmatically change the background image of all of my desktops simultaneously? Failing that, is there a way to a) find out how many desktops I have and b) loop through them, setting each of their backgrounds in turn? osascript -e "tell application "System Events" to set picture of every desktop to "<path>"" Unfortunately, that also changes only the current desktop's picture. The larger script is in Perl, so I'd prefer a technology that works well with that language, but if I have to change to a different scripting language, that's not the end of the world.
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Mar 5, 2012My customer lost his "control panel" and now can't change is desktop background.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
OS X V10.5 Leopard :: Clicking "change Desktop Background" But It Wouldn't Show The Window
May 25, 2012I have a problem with my desktop background i tried clicking "change desktop background" but it wouldn't show the window where i can change the background, i tried the right click to a specific image and it doesn't say about using it as a desktop background. doesn't require removing nor deleting certain files i'm very wary about eleting certain files i own to where if i did delete or remove a file or program the computer would be messed up and i would have to find that Mac OS X 10.5 disk to restart it all over again and rebuild everything.
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Jul 7, 2009I have a Macbook Pro and I have been recently changing around my backgrounds including my login background. However, when I changed my background via command in the terminal by switching the defaultdesktop.jpg with another picture in the CoreServices folder, My picture does not show up on the login screen instead it is just a plain blue screen. Is there anyway to restore the original login background settings?because I actually found a program "loginox" that easily changes the login picture however, it will not open because it says I have changed the original background photo.
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Jul 20, 2009I just set my background to rotate between the pictures in a folder and every time I restart the computer, I am stuck with a generic blue background (not in my pictures folder, mind you!).
I just have to right click/change destkop background, unselect the folder and then reselect and it comes back.
MacBook :: Change The Setting For The Background?
Apr 9, 2012how do i fix my computer background. it looks like picture negatives. i have looked all in the settings and cant find anything. Does it have to do with calibrating
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MacBook
MacBook Pro :: How To Change Background On Computer
Dec 6, 2014i can change the back ground on my mac but it won't stay that way?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
MacBook Pro :: External HD Will Not Show Up On Desktop Anymore
Feb 29, 2012My external HD won't show up anymore on my desktop nor does it get listed in disc utilities. I tried to cennect it to another mac but it doesn't show there either nor in that mac's disc utility. I happened to re-start the computer while the hd was connected and now it doesn't show up anymore. I use it for back-up via Time machine. I could re-format and do the back up all over again but then I need to find it first.
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7), External HD
MacBook :: Fix The Orientation Of A Desktop Background Photo?
Feb 22, 2012I have a bunch of photos that I'd like to be able to use as my desktop background - all are saved on my computer with the correct "portrait" orientation, but when I open system preferences they weirdly show up in "landscape" orientation. I've tried everything I can think of (saving them under different names, selecting and deselecting the exif orientation tag box, etc). Nothing works. The photos still show up sideways in the preferences panel.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
MacBook Pro :: Desktop Background Frozen In OS.X Lion?
May 11, 2012I have the Macbook Pro 13" OS.X. Lion and can't change my desktop background [it's frozen to what I changed it to almost a month ago]. I've looked to drag out the "com.apple.systempreferences etc" file but I can't find it in my Library>Preferences.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook Pro :: Change The Projector's Default Background?
Mar 5, 2012I want to be able to change my projectors default background while using my mac book pro. Currently it is showing Apple's signature background. I would like to change it to a plain black background so that when I disengage mirroring the screen the audience sees will go black; thus allowing me to make any necessary changes/switch programs and then engage mirroring.
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MacBook Pro
MacBook Pro :: Cannot Restart - Freezes On Blank Desktop Background
May 20, 2010I have a base 15" mbp 2010 model. I wanted to restart my laptop several times and this happened about twice now. I had to force shutdown by holding the power button, but this can't be healthy for it. Here's what happens, I go to apple>restart and then my desktop icons and taskbar, finder bar goes all away so that only my desktop background is showing, and it stays there. I can still move the cursor with my trackpad but me being new to macs, i don't know any keyboard shortcuts to bring up the activity monitor and stuff. Is something wrong with my macbook pro?
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May 20, 2010Just wondering, but how do u run screensavers as a desktop background on a mac osx?
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Mar 5, 2012whenever i restart or reopen my macbook after shutting it down, the previously opened background shows up...nt the changed one..anyone with any sol...????
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook Pro :: Get A Half Size Desktop With Blue Background?
Jun 23, 2012after I have not used macbookpro for a while the screen shows a half size desktop with login screen with the rest of the screen blue.
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Aug 22, 2014I'm not happy with the backdrop that appears on my display when my MBA starts up, before I log in to my user account. So I'm not referring to the wallpaper that you'd see on the desktop if all your applications were minimised or closed, but the background when you first switch the notebook on (visible when the theme tune is played, and the apple symbol shown). The MBA I purchased in September had a lovely background that was a subtle cross hatch of dark and medium grey. The newer model, purchased this June (after I destroyed the first one through water damage) has a boring, solid light grey background instead. I haven't been able to work out how to alter this in system preferences.
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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), Purchased June 2014
