Comments on: Changing OS X Lion’s Mission Control and Dashboard image backgrounds

By: Truco: Cambiar el fondo de Dashboard y Mission Control en Lion | ProfesorMacintosh

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:14:33 +0000

[…] les encantaría un cambio de estilo. Es por eso que hemos decidido compartir con los lectores un pequeño truco que hemos encontrado por la red que nos permitirá modificar la imagen de fondo que aparece al […]

By: Victor immordino

Victor immordino — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:30:19 +0000

thanks dude

By: James

James — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:42:41 +0000

That’s exactly the same reason I never got into using Spaces… it was just too much effort to figure out where I was than it was worth.

By: macstarter.com

macstarter.com — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:26:20 +0000

I hated the idea of Desktops when I first used it, but have now really started to dig the sideways action. The biggest problem for me was not being able to tell which Desktop I was currently looking at, (as with the Leopards you could just look on the Menubar). I made a set of simple Wallpapers and put subtle markers to remind you which Desktop you were currently looking at – http://goo.gl/YQGTv

By: Truco: Cambiar el fondo de Dashboard y Mission Control en Lion

Truco: Cambiar el fondo de Dashboard y Mission Control en Lion — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:41:06 +0000

By: xforce11

xforce11 — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 03:00:51 +0000

Sorry for the post spam. One of the letters in the name of the file was capitalized when I renamed the image. I made it lowercase and it solved the issue.

By: xforce11

xforce11 — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:55:09 +0000

OK I must be doing something wrong the 2 files for the Dashboard show the wood image I put in when I do Get Info, but the wallpaper for the Dashboard is now the default Galaxy Wallpaper image.

By: xforce11

xforce11 — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:41:21 +0000

Never mind I downloaded the wrong image size. Corrected now.

By: xforce11

xforce11 — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:33:44 +0000

I left the linen for MC but choose a wood image 1280×1024 for the Dashboard, but it still reduced the size and tiled it. Is there a way around this?

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:39:16 +0000

In Step 8 you say: “You will be asked if you wish to keep both images, or replace them. Obviously, choose replace.”

And then later you say “Surprisingly, I went back to using the Apple-provided gray linen backdrop for Mission Control.”

I think it’s better to instruct folks to rename their original files to something like
defaultdesktop.old.png, pirelli.old.png, and mini_pirelli.old.png — if only to make it easier to revert (like you did.)

If they (“obviously”) choose replace, it’s entirely possible they will regret that and not have an easy way to revert back.