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Loginox: easy way to change your Mac's login image

by Jay Hathaway on May 15, 2009 at 05:00 PM

Changing a desktop image on a Mac is no big thing. You can open System Preferences from the Apple menu or the Applications directory, or you can go straight to the desktop prefpane by right-clicking on your desktop. Changing the picture you see when you log in should be just as easy, but it's not. If you want to learn the Terminal commands to do it, then more power to you. For the average user, there's Loginox.

Loginox is an app with a simple drag-and-drop interface for swapping out your login image. That's literally all it does, but that's definitely enough. The only way it could work better is if the developers rewrote it as a prefpane, or if Apple decided to incorporate it into the existing desktop/screensaver settings.

[via Lifehacker]

Tags: background, desktop, image, login, loginox, os x, OsX

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PigSpigotMay 15th 2009 8:05PM

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I am definitely getting this. As a former PC user going on 5 years with a Mac, I am partial to the design and stability of macs. But lack of customization can sometimes be a little unnerving. Kudos to the Loginox peeps. One small step for MacUsers, one giant leap for ... uh, no one really.
-Josh

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EvenioMay 15th 2009 9:57PM

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You can also just replace it using the Finder (no Terminal voodoo necessary) if you know where it is. I remember it being somewhere in the System library, I think.

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JoshMay 15th 2009 10:51PM

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I just use Desktop 2 Login. You open the program and it sets the login picture to match your desktop picture. And that's it. No button pressing. No anything.

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