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mdc · Mar 24, 2003, 08:15 PM

i have to admit, that the fade thing in osX is *too* cool. my jaw hit the floor when i saw it fade in the next wallpaper and not just flip to it.

i downloaded the complexity wallpaper off pixelgirlpresents.com and then took it into photoshop and changed the hues to make about 5 differnet colour variations.

then os X takes over and oh how amazing does it look to see the stuff on the left to just change colours.

the question is. is there any way to change the duration of the wallpaper, every 5 seconds is a bit fast and a minute is a tad slow. maybe 30 seconds?

allap · Mar 24, 2003, 09:40 PM

that's a cool idea, i never thought to have diffrent coloured desktop images like that. sorry, i don't know how to change the time though.

mdc · Mar 24, 2003, 10:02 PM

you should try it out with something, it looks too amazing for words.

i have no idea how i could show you what it looks like though.

fisherKing · Mar 24, 2003, 10:28 PM

i did this with an image as well, 7 pics, then made copies of 2-6, renamed so they would work back to the brightness of image 1 (ie a loop)

i too would like to shorten the change pic time...

n8x · Mar 24, 2003, 10:37 PM

curse you apple for putting this rage128 in my computer! i want quartz extreme too!

mrbiiggy2 · 01:17 AM

It's very simple. Once you have desktop rotation turned on, open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist and find

Code:
<key>ChangeTime</key>
<string>VALUE</string>

Change VALUE to whatever time you desire, in seconds... Then log-out/in and changes will take effect.

fisherKing · Mar 25, 2003, 07:26 AM

Originally posted by n8x:
curse you apple for putting this rage128 in my computer! i want quartz extreme too!

hey, i'm just cycling images on a g3 powerbook...

mdc · Mar 25, 2003, 08:58 AM

Originally posted by mrbiiggy2:
It's very simple. Once you have desktop rotation turned on, open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist and find

Code:
<key>ChangeTime</key> <string>VALUE</string>

Change VALUE to whatever time you desire, in seconds... Then log-out/in and changes will take effect.

thank you. 20 seconds is much better.

*one day* i will be knowledgable in the ways of osX.

mrbiiggy2 · Mar 25, 2003, 02:09 PM

Originally posted by mdc:
*one day* i will be knowledgable in the ways of osX.

If only i could figure out how to get the defaults command to work within 2 nested dictionaries. All well, it works.. Can't complain.

acollins · Mar 25, 2003, 03:07 PM

Along the same lines...

Is it possible to NOT have the computer make the annoying "accessing hard drive" noise when the pictures change?

I had it set to change every 5 seconds but the noise quickly drove me insane.

I have a DVI 800 TIBook. Is it the hard drive, my computer, or do all systems do this?

bbxstudio · Mar 25, 2003, 03:21 PM

Originally posted by acollins:
Along the same lines...

Is it possible to NOT have the computer make the annoying "accessing hard drive" noise when the pictures change?

I had it set to change every 5 seconds but the noise quickly drove me insane.

I have a DVI 800 TIBook. Is it the hard drive, my computer, or do all systems do this?

This is one of the frustrating things about being a powerbook user - the incessant clickety-clack in OSX. This happens even when the machine is idle with no discernable reason to be accessing the hard drive. I'll lie in bed with the backlight turned way down and (try to) read articles while the wife is asleep. It'll clack away at random and get really noisy sometimes when scrolling a simple text page (the contents of which should simply be sitting in memory once the page is loaded and cached, no?). Get used to it, I've tried everything to get it to shut the hell up - all to no avail.

acollins · Mar 25, 2003, 03:50 PM

Damn. Thanks for the reply, though.

mdc · Mar 25, 2003, 06:51 PM

i hope someone else can answer this, hopefully someone with an ibook. i had the fade time on 5 seconds and i do not remember any harddrive noise, nor do i know of the noise that you are talking about.

could this be a TiBook issue or not?

mrbiiggy2 · Mar 29, 2003, 01:15 PM

Hrm, just found this.

King Bob On The Cob · Apr 2, 2003, 10:09 PM

Your machine is NEVER idle. It is almost always reading/writing to Virtual Memory...

allap · Apr 2, 2003, 10:32 PM

Originally posted by mdc:
i hope someone else can answer this, hopefully someone with an ibook. i had the fade time on 5 seconds and i do not remember any harddrive noise, nor do i know of the noise that you are talking about.

could this be a TiBook issue or not?

I'm using an iBook, and don't hear any noise either. Must be a TiBook issue.

mrtew · Apr 2, 2003, 10:50 PM

Originally posted by King Bob On The Cob:
Your machine is NEVER idle. It is almost always reading/writing to Virtual Memory...

I don't think that's true. Only if your memory is full will your computer use virtual memory. I have a gig of RAM and restart when my memory is full and I almost never hear the harddrive clicking away. Get more RAM!

mrbiiggy2 · Apr 3, 2003, 02:07 AM

Yay, now that I have a Radeon 8500 (Previous card was a Rage 128

) I have lovely fades in between pictures.. Awesome!

Running 'killall Dock' works just fine to update the time after you change it, if it hasn't been mentioned before. No need to log out.