The visual representation of a computer's contents when no open programs or windows are visisble. Often home to program shortcuts, datafiles, and lists of mounted drives etc.
Questions tagged [desktop]
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How do I change desktop background with a terminal command?
I trying to add to my OS X configuration script a command which sets the background to the plain dark grey, however, when applied, it only sets it to the main monitor and any additional monitors currently connected keep their current background and…
rudolph9
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Stop Desktops from Reordering
Possible Duplicate:
Why do full-screen applications change their order in Mission Control?
Say I'm on desktop 1 and a click an app in the dock for a window on desktop 3. It will reorder my desktops, moving 3 to 2. How can I keep it from doing…
Steve Robbins
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Why can't I change my desktop background?
I had a nice background, a photo from the internet. It had been there for quite awhile. Then I tried to set it to a different one, another picture from the internet, by right-clicking and doing "Set as desktop background...", but it instead set my…
temporary_user_name
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How do I show the hard drive on the desktop
My hard drive used to display on the desktop. It's gone missing, how do I get it back?
user160917
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Is there a disadvantage to storing files on the desktop?
I remember reading that one shouldn't store files on the desktop. I don't remember what the reason was. Something to do with the Finder treating files on the desktop differently. The advice given was to store files in the documents folder.
I'm not…
user454147
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Items in desktop folder to appear on desktop
Somehow recently I managed to mess up my Desktop folder so the contents are no longer displayed on the actual desktop. Anybody have any ideas how to get this back? It's not a problem normally since I normally use spotlight, but it'd be nice to…
tshauck
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Dropping items "in place" on Mountain Lion desktop
I run a multi-monitor setup at home with OS X ML as my main driver. Sometimes for a task I need to be able to drag-and-drop items from a folder to a particular spot on the desktop.
The problem here is that when I drag and drop an item on the…
HowardCodes
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Removing .ds_store from desktop while still having view hidden files on?
I have a .DS_Store on my desktop. Ruins the flow. I want to remove it and have it hidden, but I have hidden files enabled on my mac as I need it. This file however, is annoying.
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How can I setup different "environments"
I want to create different environments on my mac, for example work 1, work 2, and at home. The environments have different icons in the doc, different desktop background images etc. Is that possible? I do not want to create different users, because…
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How can I change the desktop wallpaper for a restricted, parental controlled account?
We have an iMac with several accounts (two admins, one normal and one parental controlled).
My son's account (the parental controlled) will not let me change the desktop wallpaper! Seriously? I even told it to allow him to run system preferences…
cbmeeks
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Unexpected behaviour when using 'Center' option for the desktop wallpaper in Mountain Lion
In Mountain Lion (10.8.2) the 'Center' option does not scale and centre wallpapers correctly.
The preview is correct, but the wallpaper is the same as 'Fit to Screen'.
All other options work as expected.
Desktop with 'Center':
Desktop with 'Fit to…
Silke
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"Quick note" hot corner not working
I have a hot corner turned on for quick note in lower right but nothing happens when I try it. Just installed Monterey yesterday. Is there something I might be missing?
StevieD
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how to move windows between desktop screens
I like to use three fingers swipe right and left to move between different screens. But how should i move currently opened windows to particular desktops of my liking?
Andy
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How to resize folders on desktop
At some point I changed some setting - I am not quite sure how, maybe via some sequence of keystrokes, and my folders all got bigger on my desktop.
I don't think this looks very aesthetic, how do I change the size?
This is what they look like:
Andrew Alexander
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Desktop wallpaper changes only apparently
I've followed all the solutions proposed to make the desktop wallpaper change, as it apparently it doesn't, but the only solution I can achieve is getting the default wallpaper after rebooting.
However my issue is slightly different than the one…
Andrea Sciamanna
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