Re: [racket] Off topic: OS X desktop

2011-08-02 Thread Carl Eastlund
Eli has all the menu options, including Solid Colors. It's just that clicking any of the background icons, including the solid color ones, has no effect on his actual desktop background. Carl Eastlund On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Gregory Woodhouse wrote: > That's very odd. I see an item labe

Re: [racket] Off topic: OS X desktop

2011-08-02 Thread Eli Barzilay
20 minutes ago, Carl Eastlund wrote: > > Eli, I forget, did you try the "Detect Displays" button at any > point? If you haven't, that might sync up the OS with the fact that > a virtual display is now connected, when it wasn't at boot-up. Apparently the button is not there... 5 minutes ago, Ro

Re: [racket] Off topic: OS X desktop

2011-08-02 Thread Robby Findler
Given how this machine is going to be part of the build process and making installers and other such things maybe it would be best to just plug it in to a monitor (and then still use vnc)? Robby On Tuesday, August 2, 2011, Carl Eastlund wrote: > I sat down with Eli earlier and took a look at wha

Re: [racket] Off topic: OS X desktop

2011-08-02 Thread Carl Eastlund
I sat down with Eli earlier and took a look at what was going on. It's quite perplexing. He did everything right to switch his background, but no matter what he clicked, the actual background wouldn't change. Eventually, by changing resolution, he was able to get it to a solid blue, but then he w

Re: [racket] Off topic: OS X desktop

2011-08-02 Thread Robby Findler
On my machine, the apple menu has a system preferences menu item which opens a window with a "desktop and screen saver" icon which has a "solid colors" thing to click on. Does that not wok for you? Robby On Tuesday, August 2, 2011, Eli Barzilay wrote: > Sorry for the off-topic question, but does

[racket] Off topic: OS X desktop

2011-08-02 Thread Eli Barzilay
Sorry for the off-topic question, but does anyone have an idea why an OS X machine refuses to change its desktop? (Clicking any image doesn't do anything. I always have that "Aurora" which is colorful enough to make a VNC session painful.) -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))