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Pimping your Mac OS X login screen

#11 | 7:35 |

Pimp my PC

Thursday December 3, 2009

Not content to confine his pimpery (hey, it's a word now that it's written) to his Mac OS X desktop, Dock et. al., Lucas turns his attentions to

changing the OS X login screen

. He also messes with the default alert messages.

Change the login wallpaper, change the login logo

, no aspect of OS X is safe from Lucas' pimpery (and there it is again).

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To change the default background image

- The default desktop image is 2560x1600. Any image will be stretched or scaled to fit these dimensions.

- Go to /System/Library/CoreServices

- Find DefaultDesktop.jpg.

- Create a backup of the file.

- Save your replacement desktop image with the same name (DefaultDesktop.jpg) and overwrite the existing DefaultDesktop.jpg file.

To change the login window icons

- go to /System/Library/CoreServices/SecurityAgentPlugins/loginwindow.bundle/Contents/Resources.

- The two files that will be replaced are applelogo.tif & MacOSX.tif.

- Create a backup of both files.

- applelogo.tif file size is 90x90

- MacOSX.tif file size is 140x24

- Make sure your files have the same naming convention as the originals.

- Replace the default images with your new files.

- Logout to see the changes to your login window.

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