Background and desktop pictures

I can choose a particular color for the background but when I choose desktop pictures to put on top of it, the background color reverts to blue.
On my old iBook I could have a color of my choice plus pictures.
Is it no longer possible to have both choices?

If you choose the 'Center' option then you'll be presented with a colored rectangle ...just click this and the color palette will appear.
As one of my desktops I have a single pixel saved as a 'gif' image ...because this 'image' is almost unseen I can then choose to center this image, and adjust my background color palette allowing me to show the complete desktop in any color I like. Here's a download link if you like - just control-click and 'download link target'...
http://webdesign.about.com/library/graphics/spacer.gif
Blackbook C2D Mac OS X (10.4.9) 120Gig, 1Gig, Superdrive.

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Screensaver and desktop picture being overridden

Hi,
Since new photos for mac was installed initially it installed a new desktop picture of its own accord. i have since saved my original one, however the screen saver was also overridden with a default 'national geographic' set of photos. i then changed back to an event from iPhoto. the next time the SS came on it used my pictures. the next time it had reverted to 'national geographic'. this keeps happening around in a circle.how do i stop these default photos becoming my screen saver?
both iPhoto and photos are in my dock. at this stage i plan on using iPhotos rather than the new photos.
Thanks

the next time it had reverted to 'national geographic'. this keeps happening around in a circle.how do i stop these default photos becoming my screen saver?
Have you switched between iPhoto Libraries?
Every time you switch between iPhoto Libraries, the Media Browser will switch to a different iPhoto Library as well. Then you have to set the source event for the screensaver again in the System Preferences.

Background and transparant picture

Hi,
I encounter the following problem:
I have a Word document containing a .jpg picture.
For this picture, the white background is set as "transparant colour" (in Word).
After printing the Word document using "Adobe pdf" as printer, I want to add a background in Adobe Acrobat.
However, the background is interrupted where the picture is (rectangular).
This was not the case using previous version of Acrobat!
Could somebody please help me out?
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Don't use the Adobe PDF printer. Use the Acrobat function added to Word, which is supposed to do the extra tricks needed to make this work.Though you might need to use a format that supports transparency like PNG.

Feature Request: Cover Flow for Selecting Desktop Picture

Cover Flow is a great way to scan through a set of images within a defined visual real estate. It would be perfect for the Desktop System Preferences, where we users have had to suffer forever with squinting at 72x51pixel images (at 1440x900 resolution) of our desktops. It's nearly impossible at this thumbnail size to tell what image one is looking at, and selecting to view it in the preview at 128x73 pixels is only marginally better. And of course, there's no way I know of to expand the System Preferences window to expand this whole scanario. It's the year 2009 guys; please give us your great Cover Flow to help us choose our Desktop Pictures in a reasonable way.

Hi Scott,
I know this isn't the best place, but Apple doesn't make easily apparent where to submit such requests, and I know its staff do occasionally visit these boards.
As to the appropriateness of the expectation, I have to disagree. I make my living in user interface and usability, and Apple has clearly set the expectation in the user's mind that System Preferences is the primary method for setting all sorts of Finder behaviors, including screensavers and desktop pictures. I see no reason for the user to either accept a substandard main method of setting this preference or have to learn a secondary one simply to avoid the main method.
As to the System Preference not lending itself to Cover Flow, there may be some underlying technology of which I'm unaware, but interface-wise, it seems to fit right into the Preference screen:
http://www.loungelife.com/DesktopSystemPref.jpg

Desktop pictures reverts to national geographic with 10.10.3 update

iMac. late 2012 - 2.9GHz icore 5 - 24GB Ram
with the yosemite upgrade my screen saver and desktop pictures would always revert back to national Geographic until the "leave the system preferences open" workaround was used.
with the 10.10.3 update this seems to be completely broken, always reverting to Nat Geo.
in fact, after setting the desktop to photos, it would change the desktop to one of my photos, but going on to one of my other desktops, it would be Nat Geo again.
sliding back to the desktop preferences panel. i would get back to it just in time to see the panel itself changing back to Nat Geo.
I can choose one of my photos as a permanent desktop picture and that seems ok, but if i want to shuffle, it goes back to defaults.

Hello,
in the hope that someone could help me with some advice, I am uploading some pictures that are visualizing my above described problem.
Thanks for any ideas.

HT2478 hello, i follow the instructions but my background is still coming up with my bad photos in aperture, but I want to get the apple ones, I click on Desktop Pictures and click galaxy. but nothing changes

Hello, my problem is my background.
one day my background was fine, it was the same as its always has been!
I go on the next day and its changed?
It comes up with the worst pictures that I have taken through aperture and changes everytime I wake the computer up! I dont log out
So I go to the menu bar at the top of my mac screen (2010 iMac). I click the apple sign, go to system preferences and go to what you call 'Desktop & Screen Saver'
Then I click on apple in the left tab and it comes up with your designed backgrounds. I click on 'Desktop Pictures' and click on the first picture (Galaxy) and... the background is still the old horrible looking photographs and the galaxy background wont come up , it has been like this for a while now and i try again every week
please Help!!
James Tucker 2000
AKA James Tucker
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I can't change my Desktop Background anymore, Used The Diptic app to create a collage and now i cannot change my desktop picture, on Mac Book pro

I can't change my Desktop Background anymore, Used The Diptic app to create a collage and now i cannot change my desktop picture, on Mac Book pro

You can't go to System Preferences>Desktop&Screen Savers and change the display? Try it and see. I've never seen that problem.
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When switching between user accounts, the background desktop picture disappears and goes to just a blue background. Whats up with that?

When switching between user accounts, the background desktop picture disappears and goes to just a blue background. Whats up with that?

All fixed! It was TeamViewer that was causing the problem.

Why can't I right-click and set desktop picture?

Greetings.
I am having a lot of trouble changing my desktop picture. From what I understand, you right-click the image and click on 'set as desktop picture'. I click it and nothing changes. I have tried to download the image and set it manually through System Preferences but when I go into Desktop & Screen Saver but there are no other folders other than the 'Apple' one that have the wallpapers that come with the computer.
If it's relevant at all, my macbook pro is a 10.6.8 version.

You should be able to do it three ways, some of which you already know:
Right-click image, choose "Set Desktop Picture"
Right-click desktop, choose "Change Desktop Background"
Go into System Preferences, click "Desktop and Screen Saver"
Note when you are in System Preferences, the current desktop is shown in an indented "well." That always indicates that it is a drop target. You don't need to be able to see in the list the pictures or folder you want. Just drag it from the desktop, or iPhoto, or whatever app you're looking at your photo in, and drop it in that well, and it will be set.
muffinpirate wrote:
I have tried to download the image and set it manually through System Preferences but when I go into Desktop & Screen Saver but there are no other folders other than the 'Apple' one that have the wallpapers that come with the computer.
If you did want to do it the old-fashioned way and drill through folders and files, you can click the plus symbol [ + ] below the list there and then you can add any folder to the list. In case you have a folder full of desktop backgrounds, for instance.
(I might be wrong about some of this since I am using 10.8)

Aperture makes desktop backgrounds and iphone backgrounds blurry.

So, I don't know when exactly this started happening, possibly after 2.1, but here is the issue.
I organize my desktop and iphone backgrounds in aperture with one project for each, with smart albums dividing it up so that I can have different categories. Each photo just has one or two keywords to keep it organized. Then to change my desktop I go into system preferences and choose it from the drop down there. Before this specific time that I can't remember, the desktop would change and it would be perfectly clear and sharp, like the picture. Now when I change it to a background added after that time, it is blurry and pixelated. Also, the same thing occurs with my iPhone. The backgrounds are exactly the size of the iPhone's screen, but pictures added after that time come out blurry on the iPhone.
I've reinstalled OS X a few times and Aperture from scratch a few times but have kept the same library throughout. What could be the issue? I hate not being able to have new backgrounds, for about a few months now.

Success! Well sort of. I went into Mission Control Preference Pane (in System Preferences) and fiddled about with a few ticks. The one that seemed to make the difference was the one called Show Dashboard As A Space. Make sure it's ticked. This is a bit of a bummer if you want multiple desktops with different personalised photo backgrounds but you don't want the dashboard as a space. It's still a fault Apple! So if someone finds this solved their issues then please don't mark the post as "this solved my problem", maybe just "this helped".
Because the issue is not resolved for those who don't want the dashboard as a space - those people can only have Apple's own backgrounds on their desktops! And it is worth point out that without the Show Desktop As Space box ticked, even with Mission Control set to just one background, the Aperture photo would not be reatained through log out and restart etc. AND the actual Desktop/Screen Saver preference dialogue box didn't work properly, taking ages to select a picture and the picture not changing on the background itself until the user threatens to exit the box. As I say though it all went swimmingly with the Show desktop as space box ticked.
Dear oh dear Apple, with every step "forward" you take there's always the odd lurch backwards into the murky days of Windows 1.0!

Desktop Pictures Cant 'Change and Repair Permission Stuck

Are these two problems interrelated...
I first posted this yesterday - but no responses, so I try again.
I can not see the Apple choices for desktop pictures (Nature, Solid Colors, etc)
I have read that I should delete the systems playlist and or the apple.com.desktop playlist... believe me I would if I could, but neither shows up in my preferences playlist. Since i don't see either of these playlists, I assume thta is why neither of these choices is available in the picture selection control panel.
I have repaired permissions and still nothing.
I do see my Aperture and iPhoto pictures and it is currently stuck on a picture I have chosen awhile back from my desktop.
Any help is really appreciated.
How do I rebuild the playlist which are required for these choices?
Now today I tried again to repair permissions and I get this strange response...
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/OwnerGroupTool has been modified and will not be repaired.
Group differs on "private/etc/cups",should be 0, group is 26.
Permissions doffer on "private/var/spool/cups/cache/rss", should be drwxr-xr-x, they are drwxrwrx-x.
So how do I fix this and is this causing the problems with my desktop pictures?
Sorry long post, but need help from some experts.

Barry,
Okay I made a slight mistake spelling out the PLIST as a playlist.
The ongoing problem as stated is I can not see nor change my desktop background pics. I have read that some folks have corrected this by deleting the dektop.plst, reboot and all is back to normal or rebuilding/repairing permissions. However I don't have a file, as I mentioned, for the desktop.plist to delete.
Repairing permissions I would think would rebuild this file, however I get the described SUID file warning which doesn't get repaired.
Hope that helps explain it a bit more.
KC

My lock screen just shows a black background and a User Name/Password dialog after opening the screen from sleep. How do I get it back to where it blurs my desktop image with the dialog and my account image displayed?

I'm not sure when it began, but now my Macbook Air only shows a black background and a User Name and Password dialog box when I wake it from sleep. It used to show my desktop background blurred with my user name and icon displayed with only a text field for entering my password. I'm currently using Yosemite (OS X 10.10.1) and all updates have been done. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I know this isn't a real problem, just an annoyance since I couldn't find how to change it back in the System Preferences.

I just have to point out that after looking at a related post (https://discussions.apple.com/message/22661092#22661092), it brought to memory that my issue most certainly began happening after I added some DoD certificates to the keychain. This obviously has something to do with it, but it still leaves me wondering what actually causes this to happen. :/

How do i get the same desktop picture on my external monitor, as on my macbook pro, and get it to stay that way when unplugged?

Everytime I use an external monitor with my macbook pro the desktop picture always changes to the same one as on my external hard drive...how do i get the external monitor to show the same picture as my macbook pro and keep it that way?

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Mobile Accounts - Sync of iCal and Desktop Background Fails

I just set up mobile accounts and mobile home syncing on my computers so network users have a local home rather than just their network home. However it is interesting to me that the desktop picture is independent of the network home. That is to say, each machine has its own desktop picture for any one account.
However iCal does the same thing and thats a problem for me. For example, if I set up iCal to sync with my gmail on on computer, the other computers will not do it. I'm trying to avoid going into every computer and setting up the calendar preferences because that would be a pain in the tail.
Any clues?

Ditto. I am having the same problem. I don't understand why ~/Library/Application Support/ doesn't sync. There are two entries in the exclusion list, but none of them would prevent Mail, iCal, AddressBook, or iChat from syncing their configuration (.plist) files.
The only reason I bought this Mini Server was to manage these portable home directories (or Mobile Accounts) so that my family could login on any Mac and have their account all setup with everything configured and files available as if they were on their primary Mac.
Really a bummer!

I updated my Macbook, and All of my apple desktop pictures were deleted. How can I get them back?, I updated my Macbook, and All of my apple desktop pictures were deleted. How can I get them back?

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Oh!
First thing I think would be to do a search for the folder in case it's somehow got moved.
Failing that, you can retrieve the folder from your original installer disc using Pacifist.
Insert the disc (don't boot from it) and open the installer package with Pacifist. Navigate to the Desktop Pictures folder (might be a bit more fiddly to find in the package structure). When you find it, select the folder, right-click (or ctrl-click) and select 'install in default location' from the context menu.
Exit Pacifist and eject the disc.
Best of luck!

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