Comments on: How to Change the Desktop Background Picture in Mac OS X

By: Hide the Mac Menu Bar

Hide the Mac Menu Bar — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:13:21 +0000

[...] have to manually adjust the settings opacity a bit to get things right depending on your choice of desktop background. I find the darker background pictures work fine with hiding it completely, but if you have a [...]

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 20 May 2011 06:59:38 +0000

For 10.6.6 and above: under ‘Label’ you should see ‘Services’ – look in there, that’s where it is on mine.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 13 May 2011 17:37:32 +0000

Both methods work just fine on my 10.6.7

By: Lee

Lee — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:51:43 +0000

not anymore in 10.6.7 though. It’s kinda annoying when you’ve been using it throughout 10.6.6 and it suddenly disappears.

By: Manish

Manish — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:30:51 +0000

This does work in Mac OS X 10.6.6, you have to select an image.

If you don’t select an image and just right-click on the desktop, you will get the option to “Change Desktop Background”

Both methods work as described.

By: xsa

xsa — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:02:32 +0000

This doesn’t work with Mac 10.6.6. There’s no option for Set Desktop Picture.

By: WarMark

WarMark — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:53:40 +0000

I am using Mac OS X 10.5.8 .. and i do not see the “Set Desktop Picture” option after righ clicking the pic!!