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OSX Lion 10.7.4 breaks custom login screen!

Help! I recently updated my MB to OSX Lion 10.7.4. I had to re-apply my custom menu bar and icons (as usual), but the first thing i noticed was that the login window was back to that disgusting linen texture. I thought the update just replaced the file, (didn't happen before), so I went to /System/Library/Frameworks/Appkit.framework/Versions/C/Resources/NsTexturedFull ScreenBackgroundColor.png. And then the file was the same, my previous login window.

So the question is: Where is the new login screen texture stored? I can change the mission control background, but no amount of goolging or anything provides accurate and working information to replace the login screen on 10.7.4.

Why would Apple break this all of a sudden?

The worse case scenario would be that Apple decided to troll and draw the login screen programmatically. Which should never be the case...

MacBook (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on May 12, 2012 4:38 AM

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bobwild

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May 12, 2012 6:36 AM in response to aperturedev

are you kidding? A background graphic means that much to you?

Shootist007

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May 12, 2012 6:36 AM in response to aperturedev

aperturedev wrote:

And yes, my superdrive is broken.

Ok thanks for the clarification.

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May 12, 2012 6:36 AM in response to a brody

As i said, the problem is replicated on my imac, which does NOT have onyx installed, and never had. It came with lion 10.7.2. And the only reason I used onyx on my MB was to tweak certain features, not to "maintain" the OS.

aperturedev Author

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May 12, 2012 6:37 AM in response to bobwild

yes, yes it does.

Shootist007

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May 12, 2012 6:41 AM in response to bobwild

bobwild wrote:

are you kidding? A background graphic means that much to you?

If from the start that graphic could not be changed I don't think the OP would care as much. But since from the first release of Lion that graphic could easily be changed and now it can't causes one to wonder why Apple has gone this route. Why have they made that change? For what purpose has this change been made?

That is the real question.

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May 12, 2012 6:44 AM in response to Shootist007

Indeed. I remember the days when apple was the cool, different thing. But now the restrictions are all compounding, like that scene from starwars where the escape is some trash chute. And in this analogy that trash chute is much more customisable, much more designable. but it is a trash chute. *hint hint*

bobwild

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May 12, 2012 6:49 AM in response to Shootist007

That question, to me, I emphasize - to me, is just as irrelevant as changing the background to the login screen.

But if it means that much to you thats ok too. If you can afford the time to spend on it thats ok too.

a brody

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May 12, 2012 7:47 AM in response to aperturedev

Scratch that...login screen. So this is the screen that appears when you log out of your machine and login to a different user. I see now on 10.7.3. Updating my backup of my iMac now to see if the problem is reproducible in 10.7.4.

a brody

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May 12, 2012 8:24 AM in response to jsd2

I ignore me too threads. Many people want to bash Apple, and you can't tell a troll from a real sufferer. However, I did test on the same machine running 10.7.3 and 10.7.4, and have reproduced the problem. I suggest people post to http://www.apple.com/feedback/ or sign on http://developer.apple.com/ for a free account and post to http://bugreporter.apple.com/ what you did to reproduce the problem.

aperturedev Author

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May 12, 2012 8:38 AM in response to a brody

Strange, I never got that problem on 10.7.3; the login screen was customised perfectly fine.

a brody

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May 12, 2012 12:51 PM in response to aperturedev

Let me clarify, I got it to reproduce in 10.7.4, but not 10.7.3. And this on a fairly clean system.

pearpeel

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May 12, 2012 1:14 PM in response to aperturedev

Same here, changed both:

NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroundColor.png

and

defaultbackground.tiff

defaultbackground.jpeg

But nothing..

Also, the original defaultbackground.tiff is/looks like the pattern you gett on login-screen, and I even tried trashing the file..but nothing again. Very frustrating.

May 12, 2012 1:19 PM in response to aperturedev

Onyx is not the issue as I do not have Onyx and have the same problem. On the update, the screen changed back to the "linen" backgroudn even though the NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroundColor.png has NOT changed.

May 12, 2012 2:07 PM in response to a brody

It happened to me too, and I never used any 3rd part utility software. All I did was copy and paste a new image in the appkit system framework.

Mac OS X 10.7.4 no longer uses the appkit framework for loading the loginwindow background.

May 12, 2012 7:21 PM in response to aperturedev

Add this to the long (and growing longer) list of stuff about Lion that just flat out disappoints. I've been a Mac guy since OS 9 and an OS X user since the beginning and this is the first release of OS X that has given me regret. My machine running Lion is less capable than it was with Snow Leopard and all I have to show for it is a splash of iOS paint in my OS X.

I just updated my machine to 10.7.4 this morning and have been trying like mad to figure out where the image I chose for my login screen went. I actually don't eveb hate the linen look--I think it was well executed--but at the same time, I don't want it on my login screen. I want choice.

Anyone else dreading what we're going to lose in Mountain Lion?

OSX Lion 10.7.4 breaks custom login screen!