Setting Backgrounds outside of system preferences

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yroc

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alright how the hell do i quickly set a background in Tiger without having to go the desktop/screen saver menu in system preferences... fuck i hate learning new OS... but so far i love it

also can anyone point me to a website that has jsut a buch of random help key combinations that are helpful... mainly anything like alt+tab in windows ctrl+c, ctrl+v, ctrl+a etc.

thanks guys,
Cory
 
1) Right click on the desktop. Select change wallpaper


2) The keyboard/mouse section under System Preferences has a list of common key commands. You can also mount your own key combinations there.
 
synergyo1 said:
1) Right click on the desktop. Select change wallpaper
Click to expand...

i was thinking more along the lines like in windows where you right-click on an image and it has the set as desktop background right there in the right-click menu...
 
Automator to the rescue.

Create a workflow with the following Actions:
*Get selected iPhoto items
*Set the desktop picture

Save it as an application. Select an image in iPhoto, and run the application. The selected image will be set as the background image. I rather like using iPhoto to organize my non-photo images as well. It works quite nicely, what with the keywording and folders, and so on.



Edit: hey, it seems the syntax for AppleScript is really easy!
Code: 
set ThePicture to choose file
tell application "Finder" to set desktop picture to ThePicture
 
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