Easiest way to make a photo your desktop background

In iPhoto, making a photo into your desktop is a simple single click. Is there any way in Aperture to do this?
Thanks,
Boris

You can access the Library from the Desktop and ScreenSaver PreferencePanes in SystemPreferences.
Regards
TD

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Hi Hdebar,
Go into system Preferences>Security
uncheck the box that says "require password to unlock
each secure system preference"
Hopefully, this will apply to your situation.
I am unable to select "desktop" also. However, I checked my pref:sec and the box was not checked. Do you have another suggestion?
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Hello everyone,
What's the easiest way to make a password system in java?
I'd like to be able to:
1) store passwords for about 6 people.
2) have the people only interact with my program using my Eclipse console with no GUIs, pop-ups or Swing code.
3) let the people have the ability to create/delete their own passwords and logins. (ideally)
Having searched around the Internet, it seems that the options are to:
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B) have code that serializes objects - this seems pretty difficult.
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Using GUIs and Swing is really easy, I have only been using Java for a week now and I have already made a simple application with events. First of all Swing is a package and you need to import it (as described in the documentation).
When you click on the Swing package in the documentation to the second frame you'll see JFrame when you scroll down. JFrame's are the main windows on your screen. JFrame is a class therefore it needs to be instantiated (making an instance of that class so we can use it). After all, everything is based around classes.
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Title here");
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As explained in the [JFrame section of the documentation|http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/JFrame.html] in the "Constructor Summary" section is the different types of Construtors that are made available to us when we instantiate the JFrame class. One of the construtors available are:
JFrame(String title)
... which is exactly what I did above in the brackets/parentheses (its telling us we can add a String title).
Remember constructors do not have any return type or anything and is not a method, because it is the same name as the class and when we instantiate we call the constructor. And so the JFrame class has many constructors, one is for making a title for our JFrame and another is just instantiating without a title. If there wasn't the JFrame(String title) and just JFrame() constructor, we wouldn't be able to add a title as we made an instance of JFrame.
So once we've made an instance of JFrame we have all the methods available (and all of the methods are shown in the API documentation).
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