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How to change the OS X login screen

May 11, 2009 by Ross McKillop 

This tutorial will guide you through changing the OS X login screen from the “Leopard wallpaper” to any image of your choice.


  1. The first step is to download and install Loginox. Loginox requires OS X 10.5 or later. The installation is very straight forward - just open the .dmg file and drag Loginox to your Applications folder. Launch it from there
  2. You’ll be presented with a window that shows your current login wallpaper / image, and a blank window where you can drag your new login background.

  3. The image you set as your new login background should be 2560px by 1600px. I used the Gimp for OS X to crop and scale my image.
  4. Once your image is sized properly, drag it into the New Login image ‘blank’ window of Loginox. That window should fill with a thumbnail of your picture.

  5. Click the Set new Login image button. You’ll be prompted to enter your password. Do so.

  6. Now the Current Login image pane will display your new login background image.

  7. The next time you log out or restart your Mac, the new login screen will be displayed.
  8. If you ever want to revert to the default login background, just launch Loginox again and click the Reset to default button.

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9 Responses to “How to change the OS X login screen”

  1. Loginox Changes the OS X Login Background Image [Downloads] · TechBlogger on May 11th, 2009 9:26 am

    [...] Loginox is a free download for Mac OS X only. If you would rather simply mirror your desktop wallpaper with your login wallpaper, check out the Desktop 2 login utility. Windows users can customize their login wallpaper using previously mentioned LogonStudio. Loginox [via Switching to Mac] [...]

  2. Loginox te ayuda a cambiar el fondo de la pantalla de login de tu OS X | Aplicaciones y Web on May 11th, 2009 12:09 pm

    [...] Vía Switching to Mac [...]

  3. Loginox Changes The OS X Login Background Image | Lifehacker Australia on May 11th, 2009 1:09 pm

    [...] [via Switching to Mac] [...]

  4. Mark Jarrell on May 11th, 2009 2:16 pm

    Where did you get that cityscape background? I love that one!

  5. Change Login background image of OS X using Loginox on May 11th, 2009 9:32 pm

    [...] via   [ LifeHacker & Switching to Mac [...]

  6. Loginox, modifica el fondo de la pantalla de login de Mac OS X on May 12th, 2009 10:35 am

    [...] Via Switching to Mac [...]

  7. tony vincent on May 22nd, 2009 1:21 am

    i’ve been looking for something like this for so long!! could never deal with the OSX opener.
    peace
    tv

  8. Ted on May 22nd, 2009 11:06 am

    “Where did you get that cityscape background? I love that one!” -Mark Jarrell

    Looks like one of the opening shots from Bladerunner.

  9. Dimitri Miles on October 1st, 2009 7:58 pm

    OK, i resized my image but it till wont accept it? what am i doing wrong?

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