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They're beautiful, but a small tangent... the latest macOS has a bug that repeatedly reverts the wallpaper to the default whenever I unplug/plug my external mon

They're beautiful, but a small tangent... the latest macOS has a bug that repeatedly reverts the wallpaper to the default whenever I unplug/plug my external monitor and it's driving me crazy.

pixelHD 3y ago
Happens to me too. I use a display link'd dell dock from work, with 3 monitors. Every few times i plug it in, the wall papers revert, and the wallpapervideoextension process starts soaking up ram and cpu cycles (I dont use video wallpapers at all, just static images from my folder as wallpapers everywhere). I've made it a habit to check the activity manager everyday after I plug in the mac, and kill that process if its taking up too much resources.
jwells89 3y ago
I think what’s actually happening here is that spaces have separate desktop picture settings between displays. I noticed this a few days ago when moving a space from one monitor to the other and seeing its desktop picture change. Moving the space back to the original monitor restored the desktop picture. Not sure why it’s this way, kind of an odd choice.
- mostlysimilar 3y ago
  I think it's a deeper issue than that. I shouldn't have to set the wallpaper back both when I plug in and when I unplug.
cwizou 3y ago
Sonoma did change the way wallpaper (and screensavers) get integrated (preferences have moved in an unusual place/preferences format too) which may be the root cause of this (although I admit I never hit that precise bug). Are you using classic images or some of the built in videos ?
- mostlysimilar 3y ago
  It always defaults back to one of the new animated ones, and I always manually set it back to the solid black color option.
  - cwizou 3y ago
    If you are willing to try something, I would suggest an image (of your solid black color) instead. Because of how the new system work, I wouldn't be surprised the bug is limited to those solid color backgrounds (which are handled quite differently for historic reasons, and it could very well be why you get the error). The new wallpaper system is a bit of a mess, and solid colors have always been treated weirdly in their preferences.

They're beautiful, but a small tangent... the latest macOS has a bug that repeatedly reverts the wallpaper to the default whenever I unplug/plug my external monitor and it's driving me crazy.

pixelHD 3y ago

Happens to me too. I use a display link'd dell dock from work, with 3 monitors. Every few times i plug it in, the wall papers revert, and the wallpapervideoextension process starts soaking up ram and cpu cycles (I dont use video wallpapers at all, just static images from my folder as wallpapers everywhere). I've made it a habit to check the activity manager everyday after I plug in the mac, and kill that process if its taking up too much resources.

jwells89 3y ago

I think what’s actually happening here is that spaces have separate desktop picture settings between displays. I noticed this a few days ago when moving a space from one monitor to the other and seeing its desktop picture change. Moving the space back to the original monitor restored the desktop picture. Not sure why it’s this way, kind of an odd choice.

mostlysimilar 3y ago
I think it's a deeper issue than that. I shouldn't have to set the wallpaper back both when I plug in and when I unplug.

cwizou 3y ago

Sonoma did change the way wallpaper (and screensavers) get integrated (preferences have moved in an unusual place/preferences format too) which may be the root cause of this (although I admit I never hit that precise bug). Are you using classic images or some of the built in videos ?

mostlysimilar 3y ago
It always defaults back to one of the new animated ones, and I always manually set it back to the solid black color option.
- cwizou 3y ago
  If you are willing to try something, I would suggest an image (of your solid black color) instead. Because of how the new system work, I wouldn't be surprised the bug is limited to those solid color backgrounds (which are handled quite differently for historic reasons, and it could very well be why you get the error). The new wallpaper system is a bit of a mess, and solid colors have always been treated weirdly in their preferences.