How to set a arbitrary background color for OS X desktop
January 19th, 2010Apple only “allows” certain (rather ugly) colors to be set as a solid background color on OS X. I don’t even want to go into how utterly stupid I think this is…
Ok, here’s how you can easily set an arbitrary color on OS X.
- Save this 1×1 transparent PNG to your “Pictures” directory.
- Open the “Desktop & Screensavers” preferences pane in the “System Preferences”.
- Select “Folders / Pictures”
- Select the trans.png (might not be visible, but the image square is in the directory listing to the right)
- You might have to select “Center”
- Now you should see a color selector which lets you set your color.
Here’s how the preference pane should look like:
