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Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition
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Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition

by Keir Thomas
November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
11h 59m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Tip 203Hack Dashboard/Mission Control Backgrounds

The wallpaper backgrounds that you see behind Dashboard and Mission Control can easily be replaced. They’re actually patterned wallpaper tiles rather than large images, and they’re repeated from left to right and from top to bottom along the screen. To replace them, you’ll need to source a similar small pattern image that’s designed to be repeated when used as desktop wallpaper, or you can choose image files that are the same size as your monitor resolution (beware: if an image is too small, OS X will repeat it, creating an ugly effect). You’ll find many wallpaper pattern images by searching using Google.

Sadly, because of the way they handle wallpapers, this isn’t a trick that will work with ...

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