Customizing OS X Login Screen

ibrowse

Who else has changed their login screen? I spent a bit of time on mine, and I like it a lot.



Post 'm if you you got 'm

ghost_user_name

Very nice!



I so rarely ever see my login screen that I haven't bothered to change it.

franck

iBrowse,

How do you change the background picture ?

Mine is desperately (sp ?) blue

michael grey

I have heard good things about -- although have not personally tried -- a nifty little app call <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~keaka/sanity.html"; target="_blank">Visage</a>, which supposedly makes it very easy to change the loader and login screens in OS X.



Like Starfleet said, I see mine so infrequently I don't really think much about it.



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cubedude

I changed the loader on mine, but lost the changes when I reformated my HDD

thunderpoit

visage looks pretty cool, i like what it lets you do with the dock, but i have one question, i once saw somone in my school w/ an ibook and the dock was completely transparent, as in no outline or anything. does anyone know how to do this?

squash

It's an app called transparent dock. Look for it on versiontracker, it has a few options you can do and it works great.



enjoy

mount_my_floppy

Rename aqua blue.jpg or what ever in /library/desktop pictures/ i and what ever you replace aquablue with becomes your default background and your login background. Just drop an image in that folder and rename it aqua blue.jpg

franck

Thanks for the tip ! <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />

zo

go to <a href="http://www.resexcellence.com"; target="_blank">www.resexcellence.com</a> and you can download a ton of startup screens, login panels, icons, ahcks etc. Aweosme site.



PS I changed my bootup panel with the one the subtly says:



MacOS X

Because Windows Sucks...



like others, I 'unfortunately' dont see it often seeing that I reboot once in a blue moon.



Heck, I just travelled throughought Italy and Belgium for the last 2 weeks and havent shut off my computer yet! sleep baby sleep!

ibrowse

Yeah, I live in my girlfriend's basement right now, and her Mom wasn't too happy when the electric bill jumped $20 (not too much if you ask me, I'd pay that for her) after I got my new mac, so I turn it off at night. Thus I see my login screen daily. About the transparent dock, you can get the fore-mentioned app, or there is some way to make a transparent PDF, I had to have someone do that for me. But make three very small transparent PDF's and name them right, left, and middle.pdf. Put those three in the folder system/core services/dock.app/resources. Just make sure you move the origonals somewhere else for safe keeping.



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yurin8or

[quote]Originally posted by iBrowse:

<strong>Yeah, I live in my girlfriend's basement right now, and her Mom wasn't too happy when the [ 06-10-2002: Message edited by: iBrowse ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



"basement"...I getcha :eek:

ibrowse

I'm only 18, I'm getting by the best I can.



And it's a nice basement.

peve

is there more to say?

convert

Anyone have the orignal login screens available? Including the 'login.nib' I kinda accidendtly erased mine <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />



The one have now is ok, but I'd like to be able to go back.

ghost_user_name

[quote]Originally posted by Convert:

<strong>Anyone have the orignal login screens available? Including the 'login.nib' I kinda accidendtly erased mine <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>Use <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=12743&db=mac"; target="_blank">Pacifist</a> to extract the original files from /System/Installation/Packages/Essentials.pkg on the Mac OS X Install CD. That's standard procedure for reverting from any "theming" type changes to the system.



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convert

Thanks starfleet The link to Pacifict doesn't work for me. And I couldn't find it on version tracker. Is it available somewhere else? Thanks!



doh..



nevermind found it as Pacifist. <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />



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convert

[quote]Originally posted by starfleetX:

<strong>Use <a href="http://Essentials.pkg"; target="_blank">Pacifict</a> to extract the original files from /System/Installation/Packages/Essentials.pkg on the Mac OS X Install CD. That's standard procedure for reverting from any "theming" type changes to the system.</strong><hr></blockquote>



Well I searched the Essentials.pkg but it wasn't there. Oh well no biggie I suppose.

thuh freak

haven't seen my log screen since i set my comp to autologin. that way if (gasp) i restart and go do something, then i wont have to type my name/pass and still have to watch shyt loading (like classic). even with smp, other shyt is slower sometimes when some things r loadin.



my dog ate my cat.

ghost_user_name

Ooops... I don't know how that link got screwed up. Anyway, here's Pacifist's home page:



<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/csrstka/"; target="_blank">http://homepage.mac.com/csrstka/</a>;



Well... hmm. I just checked my Essentials package and, sure enough, the loginwindow.app isn't there. Regardless, there's a copy of it at /System/Library/CoreServices on the CD that should be the same.

ibrowse

A roundabout way of fixing that;



Go to system/library/CoreServices/loginwindow/resources/ and open one of the other login.nib's (one in another language) and just change the word's 'name', 'password' 'Log In', etc. back to english in Interface Builder (in your developer/applications folder). And save it as login.nib in the english folder.



All the information while working on the login panel in interface builder will be in German or whatever language you used, but it serves the purpose.