A Leopard looking desktop!
I am getting tired of the old Apple blue background and you probably are too. It has been around for years and I agree with Apple that a new wallpaper is necessary for Leopard. Apple got us excited about the prospect of Leopard in spring only to delay it a few months after. The iPhone is cool but I would really like to see something new on the Mac side. A lot of people have started trying to tweak their system to perform like Leopard in the meantime. So I found this nice copy of the new wallpaper that comes with Leopard (the quality is pretty good at 2000x1250):
posted by Frederic Tremblay at
7/06/2007
23 Comments:
Thanks!
Thank you... This'll do 'till the official one arrives!
I'm a new MAC user, what directory does the desktop backgrounds live in?
You can select any directory to hold your backgrounds, just go into System Preferences>Desktop and Screensaver>Desktop and select Choose Folder... from the menu on the right side. You can also import them into iPhoto for easier use.
You don't even need to know the desktop background directory because after the image has totally downloaded into the cache, all you got to do is control click on the image & click "Set as desktop image."
Excellent!!!!!!!
I was trying to find this but couldn't!!!
Here's even more Leopard style options...
you can get the transparent dock at versiontracker.com/php/qs.php?mode=basic&action=search&str=menushade&srchArea=macosx&submit=Go
Download Menu shade and you can get a transparent menu!!
I have been to System Preferences>Desktop and Screensaver>Desktop and would like to save the picture in the PLANTS folder. I just can't figure our where the folder is nor can I find out how to get my file there. Any advise would be appreciated.
Thanks from a new Mac user.
Hi, is there a way of turning off or deleting menu shade?
Ok guys... totally new mac geek here, about to unleash the real, fake, leopard, =D.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/glissonfam/616667785/in/set-72157600522108883/
Sad I know, right? =P
uber cool ,thanks for keeping us in mind.I really dig this one!
I am soooo new to this MAC-thing (via a life-long "PC"-type!), although I have to say: "THIS IS SO COOL!" All of the extras that MAC brings AND this widget to boot...THX!!
The desktops Apple got you with OSX are located here: /Library/Desktop Pictures/ :-) There are also seperate folder in there such as Plants, Abstract,.. If you put a wallpaper in the Plants folder it'll appear in the list in System Preferences :-)
Oh and btw, it's Mac, not MAC :P
@ Luke and any other New Mac User come over and check out NewMacUser.com. It is a blog devoted to bringing the best tips for new users.
as a long time mac user... it's frustrating to see someone call a desktop background a "wallpaper". We're getting tips for a mac, not a PC.
ged timson
-- Hi, is there a way of turning off or deleting menu shade? --
To delete menu shade, go to System Preferences>Accounts>Login Items (tab) Delete menushade from the login items. (If it's there.) Then, quit menu shade. Once you've done that, merely delete it. Once you've deleted it, empty your trash. (Cmd-Shift-D)
If you don't like menu shade because of it's not being a deamon program (running in the background without showing up in the dock) then you can use "Dock Dodger" to make it soe that it doesn't run from the dock.
MacTipper
My Mac-Tipping Blog
One more picky bit of Mac geekdom - Macs use a colon ":" to distinguish names in a path name, not a slash "/"
So the desktop backgrounds don't live here: /Library/Desktop Pictures/ , they actually live here...
Macintosh HD:Library:Desktop Pictures
That is, unless you changed the name of your hard drive to something else...
;)
Fox, Matt and mactipper, you guys are the best. Thanks for getting me pointed in the right direction. I am now able to find the directory and have have copied the file to the plant folder within the ...:Desktop Pictures directory.
Eric@the canopy, thanks for your excellent description of how the Mac directory structure works.
I've been a Mac user since the original SE, and I still call it "Wallpaper".
@Eric@The Canopy
--So the desktop backgrounds don't live here: /Library/Desktop Pictures/ , they actually live here...
Macintosh HD:Library:Desktop Pictures--
Uhm, I have only had a mac for the last 4 months, but, I have never come across ANY hint of using colon's to separate a path.... If you go to a terminal etc it's all /'s and if you do a get info on any file it shows the path in the "where" field using /'s.
The only thing I have ever seen :'s separating fields for is in a MAC address for network interface devices; totally separate from Mac computers.
Unless that was your point? sarcasm?
Am I the crazy one? What's so cool about this stuff?You can program your own wall paper with your own photo's and put it in your own background folder. Downloading a bunch of grass? Am I missing the point here?
I am a long time computer user.....com 64, amiga, many many pc's, .....always thought Mac's were good but afraid to try until parallels. Purchaced iMac 20inch. Now I am in love with computers again!!!!!
This is what computing is supposed to be. I prob will keep a pc for certain things but I will start using Macs from here on out.
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