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Yosemite login screen background
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Mine changed when i changed my background wallpaper. It was a nice pic of my gf at the time. Now we've been broken up for a month and a half and I'm still stuck with a blurry picture of her as the login background, despite having changed the backgrounds of all users.
EDIT: I tried again and for some reason it worked this time. Not sure why.
EDIT: I tried again and for some reason it worked this time. Not sure why.
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Logischen is gray
Good Evening,
Sorry I am New here and Switched from windows. My question: My login screen is gray and then comes the prompt where I suppose to put my password in, it doesn't show the blurry version of my wallpaper like you described. Any idea how to change that? That gray is ugly...
Thanks a lot!
Art
Good Evening,
Sorry I am New here and Switched from windows. My question: My login screen is gray and then comes the prompt where I suppose to put my password in, it doesn't show the blurry version of my wallpaper like you described. Any idea how to change that? That gray is ugly...
Thanks a lot!
Art
Login Screen
Hey,
Yes! File Vault is on and I switched it yesterday off and MBP is still calculating / de encrypting . Yes my question was targeted to keeping the File Vault on...
Best regards Art
Hey,
Yes! File Vault is on and I switched it yesterday off and MBP is still calculating / de encrypting . Yes my question was targeted to keeping the File Vault on...
Best regards Art
Custom OSX 10.10 Yosemite Login Background
In the process of building a custom OSX 10.10 image I found the following to work for setting custom login background, prevent users from changing it.
1. Replace /Library/Caches/com.apple.desktop.admin.png with custom png background. Could also rename original file to hold onto.
2. Log off or reboot to make sure new file is being used.
3. Log back in and then Lock the file running terminal command:
sudo chflags uchg /Library/Caches/com.apple.desktop.admin.png
Done.
If you don't lock it, when user changes their desktop background it will replace the com.apple.desktop.admin.png file with a blurred version of their desktop background
If you want to unlock the file run:
sudo chflags nouchg /Library/Caches/com.apple.desktop.admin.png
On previous versions of OSX I had run into issues with the OS using my custom PNG files created from Adobe Photoshop (Likely do to how i saved them), so I typically just open my custom png or jpg images in Apple Preview app and do an export to PNG, resolved that issue. If you run into issue might be worth doing.
Hope this helps someone.
In the process of building a custom OSX 10.10 image I found the following to work for setting custom login background, prevent users from changing it.
1. Replace /Library/Caches/com.apple.desktop.admin.png with custom png background. Could also rename original file to hold onto.
2. Log off or reboot to make sure new file is being used.
3. Log back in and then Lock the file running terminal command:
sudo chflags uchg /Library/Caches/com.apple.desktop.admin.png
Done.
If you don't lock it, when user changes their desktop background it will replace the com.apple.desktop.admin.png file with a blurred version of their desktop background
If you want to unlock the file run:
sudo chflags nouchg /Library/Caches/com.apple.desktop.admin.png
On previous versions of OSX I had run into issues with the OS using my custom PNG files created from Adobe Photoshop (Likely do to how i saved them), so I typically just open my custom png or jpg images in Apple Preview app and do an export to PNG, resolved that issue. If you run into issue might be worth doing.
Hope this helps someone.
This looks great. Thanks a lot Jimmy but I cannot find the the file "com.apple.desktop.admin.png" in my cache folder. Any ideas?
Thanks a lot Cloudrider
Thanks a lot Cloudrider
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Yosemite Login background
Make sure your not looking in User Library/Caches but root Library/Caches Should only see maybe 8 files and 2 folders. Open Macintosh HD then should see Library folder w/ Caches in there.
Also you might not see the extension .png might just show as com.apple.desktop.admin
Make sure your not looking in User Library/Caches but root Library/Caches Should only see maybe 8 files and 2 folders. Open Macintosh HD then should see Library folder w/ Caches in there.
Also you might not see the extension .png might just show as com.apple.desktop.admin
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