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No More Starry Skies: Change Your Mac's Login Image

So you're a technologically astute, self-proclaimed 'aesthetite,' huh? You spend all your time and effort making sure that everything in your tech world coordinates. You have a go-to color for all your gadgets and skins, you use the best-looking screensavers and you set your computer desktop to match your decor. But you're still stuck staring at that space-y image—totally not your style—every time you start up your Mac, right? Right? Not anymore...

Lifehacker let us know about a nifty little download called Loginox that lets you reset your Mac OS X computer's default login image to better suit your style.

It's not the first program to let you do this, but it's probably the easiest. All you've got to tackle is dragging your preferred 2560x1600 image (yes, there's a mandatory standard size) into the window and entering your computer password for verification.

Download it here.

Loginox via Lifehacker

Comments (2)

Been using my own image for ages and you don't need an app just to change it. The image for the desktop lives here:
/System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg, just overwrite it with something suitable (after backing it up, of course.) There are a few "representations" of the background that is embedded into the system that will not change with this, one of them is in the Finder's "Places" pane where the icon for the desktop is the default one. Don't know if the app quoted will change those either. At any rate, no harm done.

posted by marcelor on May 14th 2009 at 5:01pm
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For the record, this app doesn't change the Finder's "Places" icon. That's a level of on-the-fly sophistication I don't think you're going to find with freeware.

Anyone know how to do this without going through the registry on Vista?

posted by RJHD3 on May 15th 2009 at 7:20pm
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