How to Change Wallpaper in Mac OS X

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Change your desktop look and feel by applying a nice background called wallpaper. You can change the mac wallpaper to one of the patterns, colors, your own or pictures or wallpapers that come with Mac OS X.

If you want to apply or change desktop wallpaper in Mac OS X, then follow the steps to do so.

You can also see How to change screensaver in Mac OS X

Step 1

Click on Apple logo and go to System Preferences

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Step 2

In Personal click on Desktop & Screen Saver option

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Step 3

Select Desktop button. In left panel of screen you’ll find all wallpapers which you have on your system

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Step 4

Click on any wallpaper of your choice, immediately it became applicable on your screen

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Step 5

You can also set timer to change a wallpaper randomly after a fix time. So mark Change picture check box and then set time from a drop menu according to your choice

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We set here Change picture time after every 30 minutes, Random order and Translucent Menu Bar check boxes are also marked, and just quit from the screen to apply all the changes made

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Comments:

  1. Kamran 12 August 2009 at 3:23 pm #

    Useful posts for beginner, keep it up

  2. Robor 15 September 2009 at 5:23 pm #

    Where are you from? Is it a secret? :)

  3. The Infowizard 23 November 2011 at 9:57 am #

    I’m using Mac Lion OX 7.1 I want to change the time of the desktop & screen saver to 10 and 15 seconds. Currently the only choice I have is the 5 second and then a longer time of 1 minute…how do I make a manual over ride change? Thank you


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