Background Images Disappearing on External Display

I have a late model Macbook Air and just upgraded to Mountain Lion. Since doing so every time my Mac goes to screensaver and then I unlock it, it loses my background image on my external monitor (which I use as my primary when docked). The only way to then get it back is to logout and back in but then it onlh stays until it goes to screen saver again. Once it's "lost" opening "Change Desktop Background" and activating different background images has no effect... it just stays an ugly gray. This has onlhy been an issue since going to Mountain Lion and the image doesn't disappear on the Air's built-in display. Any ideas?

Unfortunately my issue is back. Selecting a new screensaver seemed to work for about 12 hours but now it's just the way it was. Today I tried softwater suggestion...
Open Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and copy/paste this command into the Terminal window:
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver.plist
press 'return' on your keyboard.
Restart your mac and test for the issue.
... to no avail.
Other ideas?

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off-line, enabled, OpenGL-accel, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 3, Rotation 0
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off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 2, Rotation 0
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Mar 2 14:39:15 Nick-MacBook-Air-2.local com.apple.AmbientDisplayAgent[304]: AMBD Agent: xpc connection became invalid during event handler

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Apple computers: Troubleshooting issues with video on internal or external displays - Apple Support
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Go to Solution.

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Hi -
I've built a page with a flash animation, and some other
minimal information below the movie. I have a page background image
that should be repeating horizontally behind everything. When I
preview it, all looks great! After I upload it to the actual site
the background images disappear. The code is all within the page.
Any ideas?

never mind... problem resolved.
my error in not checking my files over. oops.

Unable to use edited background image

I am using Captivate 3 on Windows XP Pro. After I edit a
background image in an external image editor, the image is saved in
a temporary folder, and I can't work out how to incorporate it back
into Captivate so it will replace the original image. There doesn't
seem to be anyway of identifying the "Library" folder through
Windows Explorer to replace it.
I'd be grateful for any guidance on this,
David

Hi David and welcome to our community
How are you kicking off the edit process? Right-clicking the
image in the library? If so, the Library should auto update. But
you may also need to right-click and choose update to force it.
If you just copied into an image editor, you should be able
to simply select and copy inside the image editor and paste into
the background to update.
Cheers... Rick

Help! Background image + templates CS4

SO, I created a template. One of my editable regions is my main_image div. In source code view i have my main_image div tag and within it I have a text box div tag and scroll box div tag. In my CSS thats attached to this site my #main_image rule has a background-image property. Now, the thing im trying to do is to change this background image when I create new pages based off of this template that I created. I know I cant change it in the CSS because its the same CSS that is used throughout the new pages. I tried using editable attributes to change the background image generating :
<div id="main_image" background-image="@@(_document['backgroundimagemain'])@@"> but the background image still remained the same image when i generating new pages. I tried optional region, again no effect. I tried going into Modify> Template Properties in my new page and it says there are "no template properties available". There either must be some code to apply in the source code.
Stuck.

Because you are using an element with all the same ID (div id="main"), you will want change that to make the ID the Editable Attribute. That way, you can define the ID in the page itself (Modify > Template Properties...) and indicate the background-image in your external stylesheet.
Here's a link for creating Editable Attributes: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/using/WScbb6b82af5544594822510a94ae8d65-7aa3a.h tml
This affords you off-page control (except for editing the ID on pages), an ideal situation with a Templated site.
On the pages, define your ids, set up following the instructions referenced above:
id="horsepage"
id="cowpage"
In the stylesheet, define your background-images:
#horsepage {background-image: url( your horses image path here );
#cowpage {background-image: url( your cows image path here );
Beth

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