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Change login screen picture no longer possible in beta 2

CLS7

CLS7

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Malmoe, Sweden
I installed MacOS Big sur 11.2 beta 2 last night and it seems now that the login screen picture is no longer possible to change.

I tried to do a change from both Onyx and in a manual way, but without success.

So now I have to see the horrible rainbow picture every time I start my Mac. Thank you so much Apple!
 
That's odd. The horrible rainbow has come and gone, apparently randomly with me.

I have 3 monitors, and mostly, I get the desktop picture from my central monitor.

When I install 11.2 beta 2 I'll see what happens.
 
CLS7 said:
I installed MacOS Big sur 11.2 beta 2 last night and it seems now that the login screen picture is no longer possible to change.

I tried to do a change from both Onyx and in a manual way, but without success.

So now I have to see the horrible rainbow picture every time I start my Mac. Thank you so much Apple!
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It seems because of the way Big Sur is setup, including the use of the SSV. It makes sense.
 
richmond62 said:
What does "It makes sense" mean?
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A lot OS users reporting the default login wallpaper comes back, after trying to change it. What makes sense to me is the way Big Sur is setup, the system won't allow you to a simple change, even ONYX is having a issue. Better to leave it alone. I'm sure Apple has gotten a earful about this. Wrong choice of words.
 
Yes, probably a wrong choice of words. But what you have said makes sense.
If you don't like the exigencies of locked, proprietorial systems hop over to Linux.

For the last 17 years I have run machines with Linux (almost exclusively Xubuntu) alongside
a wide variety of Macintosh machines running various avataras of macOS, and really cannot see any particular
advantage of Macs (except that my son, very generously, bought me a 2018 Mac Mini for Christmas 2 years ago, and I have been using Macs since 1993 - when Linux as a desktop system was dead in the water).

AND, frankly, if all you are complaining about is setting a log-in screen then you had better reach for the razor blade
and slash something: as someone who started work at the age of 15 with a Research Machine 380Z jacked into an old black-n-white TV with monster floppy disks it amazes me how people nowadays behave like spolit brats about such things.
 
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I have a feeling that Apple are becoming even more "control freaky" than in the past about their GUI.

This is an awful pity as MacOS is a marvellous system and I can see NO reason whatsoever why Apple could not allow end-users to customise things almost as much as one can customise a Linux distro.

The 'problem' as far as it is a problem (which it may no be to a lot of end-users) is a bit like all that CC-TV: "If you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear": well, no you don't until it is too late. The way Apple is tightening up its system is making things extremely difficult for software programmers, which, when push-comes-to-shove is more significant than changing the login screen (even if that rainbow "thang" makes me want to stick my head in the toilet).

This sort of behaviour has already been seen with Microsoft: once a company develops what is the next best thing to a monopoly it can do exactly what it wants with no regard to the customer.

Way back when I was running MacOS 7.1 on an LC 475 the thing was customised about as far as things could go (and that was pretty far): now it is almost impossible to change those powder blue folder icons over to the British Racing Green I prefer (and have on all my Linux boxes) except on a case by case situation.

When I consider that my 2018 Mac Mini cost on the sunny side of 1,000 bucks, while my average Linux box cost me 25 bucks from the second-hand shop down the road, I would like a bit more "Bang for my Buck".
 
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Disclaimer: I know less than most of you. But just in case this might help:

I've spent an hour searching for a solution, or even a clue. And the most promising lead I can find is this:

It seems that Filevault has to be off in order to change the login screen. When I first set up my M1 MBA, I enabled Filevault. I'd rather not disable it just to try to change the login screen.

If you have a moment, please reply and say whether you've been able to change the login screen AND whether Filevault is enabled on your Mac.

Me: cannot change login screen, Filevault is enabled
 
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