keakaj.com — Visage Login allows you to easily and safely customize your Mac OS X login screen. Visage keeps track of Apple's default settings for every customization, so you can easily switch back to the original settings at any time.
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gatorsrule21Dec 4, 2006
$450? On the page it says four dollars and ninety-five cents ($4.95).
xilonDec 4, 2006
Still $4.95 too much for an application like this. Such features should be free.
elqedDec 4, 2006
There's this neat little app installed with xcode called Interface Builder. Find the NIB used by the login app, called "LoginWindowUI.nib" (hint, on my box it can be found at - /System/Library/CoreServices/SecurityAgentPlugins/loginwindow.bundle/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/). Enjoy.It is certainly possible to turf you osx install (but, backups are your friend, and learning how to use single user boot is good for you), but I would rather risk screwing something up than pay $5 for something so trivial.
drthippDec 4, 2006
lame. i'm not gonna pay money to change a screen i hardly ever see.
eatingpieDec 4, 2006
I do not recommend this neat little app, or certainly could not with either late Panther or early Tiger when I tried it (can't remember which, sorry).After installing a color image, I had one good boot with a nice image... then one total failure that (thankfully) ended in restoring the original grey-scale apple. I never researched it further because ... well... horking your early boot sequence often ends in total destructo (can't even get to single user mode for repairs if you can't boot!).-PIe
xilonDec 4, 2006
How can you even compare the two? Firstly the Linux way is free, secondly you don't have to download 3rd party software (it comes with GDM, XDM or KDE).Besides I wasn't talking just about the login screen. Be it icons, dock icons, themes, whatever... you need 3rd part applications, none of which I have found to be free.
orangetideDec 4, 2006
We've been doing this on X11 since the late 1980s.
mattpriceMay 14, 2007
@donsherio,The comments point to a "guide" that shows how to do it for free.
justadvertiseOct 6, 2009
This Simple Script below should be enough to change the Login Screen....<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/apple/Login_Screen_Changer_For_Leopard" rel="nofollow">http://digg.com/apple/Login_Screen_Changer_For_Leo ...</a>