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Easily restore a lost desktop picture
Authored by: ether on Jan 14, '05 01:10:21PM

This always happens to me when I (a) put my machine to sleep, (b) unplug the monitor, (c) wake the machine up without the monitor, and then reverse the process to reconnect to the monitor. The wakeup without monitor step is crucial, or it recalls the picture.

I'd found that using the preference pane to resize the picture (strectch) and then resize it again was the only way to make it reappear. (Simply switching to a new picture didn't.) I checked the applescript dictionaries for Finder and System Preferences, but there seemed to be no entries for these functions.

The strange thing about this hint is that, in addition to only working sometimes, I have to doubleclick the resulting app. If I launch it from a menu or the dock, it opens but doesn't seem to do anything. Most peculiar.



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