Not sue if this has been documented before but...

[eric halfabee]

... I came across a cool (or annoying) feature/bug or whatever you wish to call it with the desktop picture settings.

I have been taking my work Mac home every other weekend to do some iMovie editing (I only have a old Powercentre 150 at home). Anyway I leave my work monitor at work and use my home 17" cheapo monitor. One day at home I changed the desktop picture to a pic of Bjork, when I took the Mac back to work and connected it backup the desktop pic reverted back to the original pic it had before I took it home.

It does this all the time. I wonder if it would remember more than two different monitors pictures.

Anyway as I said this is more than likely old news to most, just think its cool though.

eric

[ApeintheShell]

Mine reverts back when the external hard drive is unhooked. It might be similar to what you are experiencing.

[adambyte]

"It's not a bug, it's a feature!" Actually, I think it's quite handy that the Mac gives you different desktops and remembers which desktop goes with which monitor setup. For instance, say you usually use your Mac at home with a picture of your naked girlfriend as your desktop... when you go to work and hook up your PowerBook to a projector, this is a whole new monitor setup, so you can change it to something business-y, and when you get back home, your PowerBook will go "hey, I'm not at work! I can put back the other desktop now!"

in all seriousness, I like this feature. When I hook up my second monitor, my Mac remembers what desktop to put there, and then changes it back. I really like this feature.

[symphonix]

I wouldn't risk that one, AdamByte. There is a half-second delay when switching. ;-)

And my iBook uses a different background when I plug it into the TV. Pretty neat, though for a while I had no clue what was going on.

[adambyte]

Eh, yeah, I know, I was being silly. Just couldn't come up with a practical application for it besides that.

And well, if I had a girlfriend, and I had naked pictures of her, I still wouldn't use them as my desktop anyway. I'm not that dumb. heheh

[~~NeYo~~]

So this is ACTUALLY a "feature" ... an interesting one! ..Makes me wanna Go grab the crappy CRT out, and try it!

[hulkaros]

Yep it is a feature... Your Mac basically can remember different monitors and TVs all with their resolutions and desktops Cool stuff which until now I thought that were known to all Mac users

[adambyte]

It's all about the little things in life.