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From: thompson@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Background screen on a Mac
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Date: 9 Mar 88 06:03:00 GMT
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>/* Written  5:15 pm  Mar  7, 1988 by steele@unc.cs.unc.edu in uxf.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */
>shp@cbterra.ATT.COM (Sanjay Patel) writes:
>>Can anyone out ther throw some light on how I can make any Macpaint (or
>>Superpaint) picture a permanent background screen?  Using the "Save as
>>Startup Screen" option from Superpaint does not do this, and neither
>>does the MakeStartupScreen program.
>
>You have to name the file "StartupScreen" (no spaces; capitalization
>matters not), and place it in the System Folder of your boot disk.
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>Oliver Steele					   ...!uunet!mcnc!unc!steele

Ah, but this doesn't make it a *permanent* background screen; it only
shows the screen on startup, then reverts to the normal desktop.

For permanence, I use a little utility called "DeskMask", although
there is also one called "ScreenSaver" or something, which causes
the screen to "hold on" to its StartupScreen.  Deskmask can take
any MacPaint picture, not just a StartupScreen.


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