Re: Setting Finder window background picture
Re: Setting Finder window background picture
- Subject: Re: Setting Finder window background picture
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:02:10 -0500
On Feb 20, 2004, at 6:30 PM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
At 11:34a -0800 02/20/2004, Mark Alldritt didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
Has anyone figured out how to set the background picture for a
volume/folder? AppleScript would be best, but if there's some shell
command
that does this trick, that's fine also.
Isn't it just a matter of placing the right filename?
Let's see... I know OmniWeb uses a bkgd pic...
/volumeOrFolder/.background/background
So that's an image file named "background" in a folder named
".background".
Let's see how Watson does it...
/Watson 1.7.5/.background/backdrop.jpg
So I guess the name of the file doesn't matter, as long as it's in a
hidden folder named ".background". Therefore you could do something
like this:
do shell script "mkdir " & posixPathToVolumeOrFolder & "/.background ;
cp -p " & posixPathToOriginalImage & " " &
posixPathToNewDotBackgroundFolder
Hmm, no go with that here. I tried doing what you suggested manually
using the Terminal and it didn't change the background of the folder.
I suspect that what you are talking about is only for disks at the root
level of the disk or some such thing. The Finder sure doesn't use that
method, I tried setting the background through the Finder and it didn't
create any hidden folders or files in the folder.
- Ken
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