From the menu bar to the Dock, this chapter shows you how to customize the desktop.

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Customizing the Desktop

The default Lion desktop is just fine as it is, but we all have different ideas about exactly how we want our computers to look and behave. Mac OS X throws the door wide open for customizations. In this chapter, we will look at some of the ways you can customize your desktop.

Changing the Background

Although the graphic of the Andromeda galaxy is the default Lion desktop background, Mac OS X provides numerous additional graphic files in several categories for you to choose from if you want to change the desktop background to something different, as shown in Figure 6.1. The graphic files supplied by Lion include full-color photographs ...

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