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What does your logon screen look like?

Very similar if not identical to the instructions DJ OJ posted in msg #11, which didn't work for me and I can't recover.

Edit: I did try all your links, none have helped me recover.
 
iTwitch said:
Very similar if not identical to the instructions DJ OJ posted in msg #11, which didn't work for me and I can't recover.

Edit: I did try all your links, none have helped me recover.
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Sorry about that man.🙁
 
iTwitch said:
As I said I tried Visage. It modified /Library/Desktop Pictures as expected but had no effect on restart. On start/restart I get a gray screen with apple and spinning thing followed by a blue screen with box containing progress bar. No background picture. I tried deleting /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist but that didn't fix it. Any other ideas are welcomed?
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From this description, it sounds as if you are expecting it to change the screen behind the progress bar when Mac OS X is starting up. I may be reading it wrong, and forgive me if I did. But changing this modifies the picture behind the login window, not behind the startup progress bar. A restart is not even completely necesary, when I did mine, I just used Fast User Switching to go to the login window, so I could log back in quickly if I needed to make changes. This seemed to work fine for me.

But if I did read this wrong, and it's giving you a blank blue screen behind the login window, I would suggest checking the easy mistakes to make, such as making sure it's named "Aqua Blue.jpg", that it's the right resolution, that sort of thing. If none of those appear to be the problem, maybe repair permissions??? I don't think this could have an effect, but possibly the picture you are trying to replace it with has some strange permissions on it, and it's not able to be accessed....
 
Is the background of the progress bar supposed to be solid blue? I've been thinking it was 'Aqua Blue.jpg' and trying to restore it. Are you telling me I'm an idiot? 😱
 
iTwitch said:
Is the background of the progress bar supposed to be solid blue? I've been thinking it was 'Aqua Blue.jpg' and trying to restore it.
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Yeah, the background of the progress bar is supposed to be solid blue. I think there is a way to change that background too, but I don't remember how off the top of my head, and I think it's a little less stable, as it requires messing around in CoreServices, if I remember correctly... I think there's some Quartz bundle that needs to be changed...
iTwitch said:
Are you telling me I'm an idiot? 😱
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Not at all! If it came off that way, I apologize!
 
No, but I felt a little like one. I was poking around in CoreServices but I soon realized I could easily hose my installation.
 

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iTwitch said:
Very similar if not identical to the instructions DJ OJ posted in msg #11, which didn't work for me and I can't recover.

Edit: I did try all your links, none have helped me recover.
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I had the problem that even when it loaded to the login screen it was still the blue background. It turned out that there was something wrong with the permissions of the .jpg file I put in, and repairing disk permissions from Disk Utility didn't fix it. I ended up changing the name to Aqua Blue2.jpg, and opening my .jpg in Preview, and re-saving it as Aqua Blue.jpg. Somehow saving it as a new file made it work.
 
Mumford said:
I think you may be talking about two different things. I agree it would be very difficult (if not impossible) for a real-time effect. But punching out an ImageMagick script to generate this login screen automatically for you when your login window changes (like if you add a user or you change your login icon) isn't too hard.
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Very true, but I don't think a "reflection" would look very realistic if when you clicked a user and the password field appeared the reflected image remained unchanged.
 
Me to, leapard rules. I acctually know someone that went to WWDC and had a leopard install disk and let me use it but it didnt work because theres no G3 support!!! G4 and G5 but no G3. I realy need a new Mac.
 
imacintel said:
Maybe he has leopard. I wish I could download it.
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DJ OJ said:
How did you do the transparency?
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Actually I'm running Tiger and the login transparency just an image added to the nib loginwindow file. If you are wondering the file is at:

/System/Library/CoreServices/SecurityAgentPlugins/loginwindow.bundle/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/LoginWindowUI.nib
 
Floodgrunt said:
Yes, but how do I get IN the .nib file in the first place? How do I open it?
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Open it with Interface Builder... I dont think you need to, just view the package content of the SecurityAgentPlugins app (use the path posted previously) and find the background image, the .nib is setup to get its image from there so replacing it with a file of the same name will route it to the custom image instead.
 
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