Tile a background image

Oct 19, '01 02:16:50PM

Contributed by: Anonymous

You can edit the com.apple.desktop.plist file so your background image will be tiled if it is not already.

Just go into the com.apple.desktop.plist (in your user's Library/Preferences directory) file with pico or your favorite text editor and remove the key for placement as well as the string for it. Take out these lines:

<key>Placement</key>
<string>Crop</string>
Then save the file, log out and log back in. Your background should now be tiled.

NOTE: Your background must have been set before you logged in. If you set a new background, you will have to log out and log back in before this will work. I don't know why. Also, I am working on finding a good way to do this with the defaults command.

[Editor's note: I have not tried this myself yet, but if you try it and it doesn't work, you should be able to delete the plist file and the system will create a new one for you.]

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