so, I was on terminal, and I was looking up ways to change the login picture in the background. So i used a code, inserted the file of my picture, and tried it. Now, all that I have is a blue screen, and when I try to change it it just stays like that. The picture path is under the format of "Users/myname/desktop/picture.jpg/" What am I doing wrong???
Ah, sorry. Here's what you do. You're on Snow Leopard, right? The image needs to be renamed DefaultDesktop.jpg in Terminal. cd /System/Library/CoreServices sudo mv DefaultDesktop.jpg DefaultDesktop_org.jpg sudo cp /path/of/image.jpg DefaultDesktop.jpg Replace path/of/image with the path to your image, which would be /Users/yourname/Desktop/image.jpg. Although, if it were me, I wouldn't put it on the Desktop... I'd probably delete it on accident....
You're right, I'm on snow leopard Wait, so I rename the pic as defaultdesktop??? What do you mean when you say in terminal??? So you're saying that when I type it in on terminal, I call it DefaultDesktop.jpg? The code that I found online was: defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow DesktopPicture "with the file path in here" Is there another one I could use to change it, or is this the optimal one. Sorry if I sound clueless, It's my first time using Terminal on my new mac and I have no coding experience whatsoever.
