maybe this has been asked before or a bug found in lion.
just got a mbp today and went to change my background image from a picure from the net and the "use as desktop image" button don't work. it doesn't do anything.
help?
imac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Is the image a .jpg?
try reseting Safari:
safari -> reset safari
bman99 wrote:
try reseting Safari:
safari -> reset safari
Safari has nothing to do with displaying an image on the desktop.
Open the image by double-clicking it - unless you've changed default app settings, if it is an image it should open in Preview.
Once the file has opened in Preview, press Command-I (Show Inspector in the Tools menu). In the small button bar near the top of that window, click the one on the far left (General Inspector) if it is not already highlighted.
In that screen, the "Document type" info line should state what kind of image it is.
its any image. nothing works. i have to save the image to the computer then set it in the settings.
the "use image as desktop picture" doesn't work at all.
*edit*
its another "full screen" bug. if you use the "use image as desktop picture" while you are in full screen mode it doesn't work.
First, please update your profile, which says you're running Mac OS 10.5.8.
In the Finder, hold down the option key and select Go > Library from the menu bar. From the Library folder, delete the following item:
Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
Log out and log back in. Then try again to set your desktop picture.
did what ya said with no luck. its a full screen bug i think? i can set a wallpaper when i return to regular view but soon as i go fullscreen and try it don't work.
as for my profile thats my imac, i did update that but im on my mbp now, i fixed it for ya.
try sending this as a report to http://www.apple.com/feedback/macos I'll try this out myself.
wow, ok, so this does seem to hold water for me. I'll also send feedback to apple about this in hopes they may fix it. I think I never noticed this because I never use the Fullscreen function in Lion. and you'll never really see it on that desktop if you are in fullscreen mode, but I see where you would want it to function as such... I digress.
The real question is how to go about "fixing" this as there is no desktop background for a fullscreen app, it just is that app, so assigning the background to that desktop might still be working but we would never be able to see it. So then would you say you would want a prompt saying that it is not possible while in fullscreen? maybe if it was grayed out it would be easier to tell that you are not able to reallu use this function while in fullscreen mode?
Yes this is a full screen bug thanks for pointing it out!
use image as desktop picture not working
