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When I worked on Mac OS X in the lab I was able to get the terminal colors from using Terminal (rather than X11) and then editing the profile (from the Mac menu bar). The interface is a bit odd on the colors, but you have to set the modified theme as default. Further settings worked by editing.bashrc. Beside iMac does not support Adobe RGB, it is quite shaming that Mac OS does not have any features to emulate other color space. Having external monitors would be a solution but it is very disappointing that Mac does not support Adobe RGB or only 73% of Adobe RGB and not able to emulate sRGB. Mac OS X has its own display calibration tool built-in. To open it, click the Apple menu on the menu bar at the top of your screen and select 'System Preferences'. Click the 'Displays' option in the list. Click the 'Color' tab at the top of the window, and then click the 'Calibrate' button. Although you may be able to run OS 8 or 9 on your old Mac, you'll generally find better performance using Mac OS 7.6. A history of the Color Classic, Tom Hormby, Orchard, 2005.10.31. The first all-in-one Mac with a color display had a bold new look but was crippled on the inside. Given my Mac disk space emergency, I decided to see if I could finally reclaim some of my lost disk space, so I downloaded two free Mac OS X disk utility tools to help me. In the end I was able to reduce my disk use from 97% down to 88%, and both of these Mac OS X disk utilities (disk space tools) helped me in that process.

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I get the plain blue desktop occaisionally, also. I find that it only happens to me when I unplug my monitor without having my PowerBook in sleep mode. Of course, my monitor is used as a second display, rather than a mirrored one, so I'm not sure if that changes anything.

Your timing is impeccable.
I've experienced this numerous times in the past but too spaced apart to bother doing anything about. This week I've been shifting my PB about and plugging and unplugging my monitor quite a bit so this has bugged me to the extent that just today I was thinking of putting my improving AS skills to the task of fixing it.
Then this comes along. Good timing.
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I do this every day transfering from a work monitor to the powerbook display at home. I have found that my best friend is GeekTool. I can specify a picture and tell it how to display.
If that is overkill, I would use your script and download Quicksilver. You can attach global hot keys to just about anything (files/programs/scripts). Simply attach a hot key to your script and any time you are without a background, hit the hot key combo. It doesn't matter what app you are in as long as you use a combo that is not used by another app. I like ctrl+opt+shift+[modifier].
Just my 2 cents.

This script is addressing a real flaw. I have the problem on my second monitor as I bring my PowerBook between home and work each day and plug it into a differently sized second monitor in each place. Unfortunately, this script only applies to the main monitor:
'Class application: The Finder
Properties:
desktop picture file -- the desktop picture of the main monitor'
Furthermore, this is listed as a legacy item:
'Legacy suite: Operations formerly handled by the Finder, but now automatically delegated to other applications'
But that suggests hope. What is the application to which the Finder has delegated handling desktop pictures? If that is scriptable then this script could be made general to deal with any number of monitors. Any ideas?

This always happens to me when I (a) put my machine to sleep, (b) unplug the monitor, (c) wake the machine up without the monitor, and then reverse the process to reconnect to the monitor. The wakeup without monitor step is crucial, or it recalls the picture.
I'd found that using the preference pane to resize the picture (strectch) and then resize it again was the only way to make it reappear. (Simply switching to a new picture didn't.) I checked the applescript dictionaries for Finder and System Preferences, but there seemed to be no entries for these functions.
The strange thing about this hint is that, in addition to only working sometimes, I have to doubleclick the resulting app. If I launch it from a menu or the dock, it opens but doesn't seem to do anything. Most peculiar.

You could always put an alias of your favorite background image on your desktop, right click (or control click) it, and choose the option to set that item as the desktop picture.

Has anyone tried locking the following file?
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
Just curious. In testing, this has worked for me…

I am always using two monitors on my powerbook, and don't have any problems like that. I unplug the monitor and it washes the screen once or twice then restores the display.
I use rotating desktops images though. every 30 minutes the background changes on the powerbook. I tried setting the large monitor to rotate but it picks one image and never changes it. So I picked one picture for the second display, and let the powerbook display rotate.
Try setting your desktop to rotate once a day or so.
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I actually solved this problem in a somewhat different manner. If you go to the terminal, and kill the dock process, your previous desktop will show back up. Any minimized windows will pop back up to full size too. A friend actually made a really simple program that I keep in my dock that does this. I have to head to work right now, but maybe I can upload it to my webserver and provide you all a link to it. Works like a charm. Shot in the dark (itch) (chairishgames) mac os.

I've recently began to have a related problem. When I disconnect an external monitor (TV) from my Powerbook, the mouse pointer dissapears leaving me helpless to use my Powerbook.
My only solution has been a reboot.
Anyone find a soluton for this?

this seems like a strange way to fix this bug.
couldn't one just set the pref to show desktop pictures from a folder that has only one picture? and have it change every five minutes or so .
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This is not a Bug this is part of the User settings Apple Started this Back in OS 9, I notice this when my sister brings her G3 PowerBook over for a fix, and when my iBook connects to my Buddys Airport. the desktop picture changes and I think the screen saver changes as well. it restores to the Setting of that specific location or setup.

I've experienced this (losing the desktop pic) when disconnecting from an S-video connection to a TV for demos. And in answer to a couple of posters above, this has nothing to do with different locations, and I also have my desktop pic set to change randomly every 30 minutes. Regardless, I'm always reset to the default blue desktop when I disconnect from the S-video connection. Therefore, I think this is indeed a bug.
I'd love to know more about how the various fixes recommended here work for different people. I like the idea of the script, and plan to test it out, but I'd love to know if there is something else that someone has discovered as a fix.
So keep posting about this, but be as specific as possible about your particular settings and what it is exactly that you find to fix it!

Mine is kind of related.
I keep a 45MB folder of desktop pictures on my iDisk, so that my desktops are synchronised across different machines.
If I use the desktop pref pane and point to the folder on the iDisk, a logout causes the desktop picture to revert to the Aqua Blue. Going to the pref pane and changing an option (i.e. change every 5 mins to every 30), the system updates and the desktop comes back.
If the folder is local, there are no problems with logging out / restarting etc., the preferences and desktop behave as expected.
A little annoying too - anyone seen this one?

This problem has irritated the heck out of me for a long time, and I even submitted it as a bug report to Apple over a YEAR ago and they said they already knew about the problem, but it has yet to be fixed!
My solution was to write an AppleScript like the one already mentioned it, and fire it up automatically using Sleepwatcher. Works nicely!
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I've been experiencing this almost daily for several years. The problem cropped up in OS X 10.1. OS X 10.0 and the beta worked fine. I've submitted at least one bug report about it, and every year since 10.1 the first thing I test after I get home from WWDC is this bug to see if they finally fixed it. Still waiting.
The easiest way I've found to work around the bug is just to leave the Displays control in the menu bar and when the desktop goes blue, switch to another resolution and then switch back (the first resolution switch restores the background).

The question I have is only peripherally related to this issue, which I have also encountered. Where is the core blue image or color code actually stored in the running OS X processes? I know the screen is drawn blue during the bootx portion of startup and remains that way in the background behind whatever desktop image is chosen. I simply want to know where that blue is coming from. Any thoughts?

I have the same problem from time to time, but I can't get this solution to work.
I'm using Snow Leopard and Path Finder.

https://storessoft.mystrikingly.com/blog/prometheus-nathandimmer-mac-os. The end of the Classic line in the North American market, the Color Classic (a.k.a. Performa 250) shared the motherboard design of the LC II – equally limited in RAM expansion, constricted by a 16-bit data bus, and able to use 16-bit PDS cards designed for the LC. The only significant difference is the presence of a socket for adding a 68882 math coprocessor.

The Color Classic's claim to fame is a tiny, remarkably crisp 10″ (9″ viewable) 512 x 384 pixel color monitor – and Apple IIe emulation using a PDS card. (The 512 x 384 pixel display matched the format of the 12″ monitor designed for the LC and LC II, which accepted the same Apple II card.)

'In many ways, the Color Classic is the compact Mac everyone's been waiting for since, well, since 1984.' (MacUser, April 1993)

Nice as it was to have color, the pedestrian performance due to the 16-bit motherboard earns the Color Classic the Compromised Mac label. Yet despite poky performance, the Color Classic is a perennial favorite: it's cute, and with some surgery it can support 640 x 480 on the internal display. (The Colour Classic II, with a 33 MHz CPU on a 32-bit bus and room for 36 MB of RAM, is what the Color Classic should have been. Since the CCII and Performa/LC 550 share the same motherboard, you can easily upgrade your Color Classic to Colour Classic II levels with a 550 motherboard.)

The Color Classic had an internal microphone above the screen and a readily accessible motherboard: just open the rear panel and slide out the board for upgrades. You can control volume and contrast using controls on the front of the computer – no need to open control panels.

Unlike other compact Macs, the Color Classic can be shut down with the power key on the keyboard. The Color Classic is also turned on with the keyboard power key.

The Color Classic was the first Mac with a built-in color monitor, although the unusual 512 x 384 pixel format size meant many games would not run properly, if at all. However, it is possible to hack the circuitry to support 640 x 480 or add a video card that allows use of a larger external monitor. (This was the first compact Mac since the SE/30 to offer an expansion slot.)

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Details

  • Performa 250 introduced 1993.02.01; discontinued 1994.05.01
  • Color Classic introduced 1993.02.10 at $1,390; discontinued 1994.05.16
  • code name: Slice
  • Gestalt ID: 49
  • model no.: M1600
  • upgrade path: no official upgrade path, although some have successfully installed 550 and 575 motherboards

Mac OS

  • requires System 7.1 (with System Enabler 401) to 7.6.1
  • addressing: 24-bit or 32-bit

Core System

  • CPU: 16 MHz 68030
  • FPU: 68882 (optional)
  • Performance: 1.7, relative to SE; 0.25, Speedometer 4; 3.9 MIPS
    for more details, see benchmark page
  • ROM: 1 MB
  • RAM: 4 MB, expandable to 10 MB using two 100ns 30-pin SIMMs

Performance

  • 0.25, Speedometer 4
  • see Benchmarks: Mac Color Classic for more details

Graphics

  • VRAM: 256 KB, expandable to 512 KB for 16-bit color, stock VRAM supports 4-bit/16-color mode on Color Classic hacked to support 640 x 480 (8-bit color with VRAM upgrade)
  • VRAM: accepts one 100ns VRAM SIMM, 256 KB standard, can be upgraded with single 512 KB VRAM SIMM, other specs unknown, VRAM SIMM appears to be specific to early Macs
  • 10″ color screen, 512 x 384 pixels

Drives

  • floppy drive: 1.4 MB double-sided
  • Hard drive: 40, 80, or 160 MB

Expansion

  • ADB ports: 2
  • serial ports: 2 DIN-8 RS-422 ports on back of computer
  • SCSI ports: DB-25 connector on back of computer
  • expansion slot: LC PDS slot

Physical

  • size (HxWxD): 14.5″ x 9.9″ x 12.6″
  • Weight: 22.5 lbs.
  • PRAM battery: 3.6V half-AA most common, although some use 4.5V Rayovac 840
  • power supply: 100W

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Accelerators & Upgrades

  • Extreme Systems Impact ‘030 (32 MHz 68030)
  • MicroMac Thunder (32 MHz 68030), optional 16 MHz 68881 FPU
  • MicroMac Thunder Cache (32 MHz 68030), 32 KB cache, optional 32 MHz 68882 FPU
  • MicroMac ThunderPro (32 MHz 68030), optional 32 MHz 68882 FPU
  • MicroMac ThunderCache Pro (32 MHz or 50 MHz 68030), optional 68882 FPU
  • MicroMac 640 x 480 video upgrade
  • Sonnet Technologies Presto 040 LC (25 MHz 68040 or 68LC040), incompatible with extra VRAM, discontinued
  • Sonnet Presto Plus (33 MHz 68LC040 or 68040, Ethernet, and 32 MB additional RAM)
  • Colour Classic II (rare) or LC 550 motherboard (33 MHz 68030), although port cover will no longer fit after installing LC 550 motherboard

Online Resources

  • Guide to Compact Macs, a quick overview of Apple's 10 models.
  • Apple IIe Card: A Tool for Getting Macs into Schools, Mac Musings, 2018.02.08
  • Overcoming Limitations: The Mac Color Classic, 20 Years Later, Benj Edwards, Macworld, 2013.02.11
  • Creating Classic Mac Boot Floppies in OS X, Paul Brierley, The ‘Book Beat, 2008.08.07. Yes, it is possible to create a boot floppy for the Classic Mac OS using an OS X Mac that doesn't have Classic. Here's how.
  • The Compressed Air Keyboard Repair, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, 2008.07.24. If your keyboard isn't working as well as it once did, blasting under the keys with compressed air may be the cure.
  • Know Your Mac's Upgrade Options, Phil Herlihy, The Usefulness Equation, 2008.08.26. Any Mac can be upgraded, but it's a question of what can be upgraded – RAM, hard drive, video, CPU – and how far it can be upgraded.
  • Why You Should Partition Your Mac's Hard Drive, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 2008.12.11. 'At the very least, it makes sense to have a second partition with a bootable version of the Mac OS, so if you have problems with your work partition, you can boot from the 'emergency' partition to run Disk Utility and other diagnostics.'
  • Attractive and ugly Macs, discontinued MacBook Pro value, and writing with TextEdit, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, 2008.10.30. Readers weigh in on the good, the bad, and the ugly of Macintosh design over the past 24 years.
  • 10 cult Macs adored by collectors, Tamara Keel, Digital Fossils, 2008.05.13. Macs are not only noted for their longevity, but also by the passion which collectors have for some of the most interesting models ever made.
  • A Vintage Mac Network Can Be as Useful as a Modern One, Carl Nygren, My Turn, 2008.04.08. Old Macs can exchange data and share an Internet connection very nicely using Apple's old LocalTalk networking.
  • Vintage Mac Networking and File Exchange, Adam Rosen, Adam's Apple, 2007.12.19. How to network vintage Macs with modern Macs and tips on exchanging files using floppies, Zip disks, and other media.
  • Getting Inside Vintage Macs and Swapping Out Bad Parts, Adam Rosen, Adam's Apple, 2007.12.14. When an old Mac dies, the best source of parts is usually another dead Mac with different failed parts.
  • Solving Mac Startup Problems, Adam Rosen, Adam's Apple, 2007.12.12. When your old Mac won't boot, the most likely culprits are a dead PRAM battery or a failed (or failing) hard drive.
  • Better and Safer Surfing with Internet Explorer and the Classic Mac OS, Max Wallgren, Mac Daniel, 2007.11.06. Tips on which browsers work best with different Mac OS versions plus extra software to clean cookies and caches, detect viruses, handle downloads, etc.
  • A (Mac) classic spookfest, Tommy Thomas, Welcome to Macintosh, 2007.10.31. How to set up those old compact Macs with screen savers to enhance your Halloween experience.
  • The 10 worst Macs ever, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 2007.10.23. The ten worst Macs of all time – and one of them came out just last year.
  • Simple Macs for Simple Tasks, Tommy Thomas, Welcome to Macintosh, 2007.10.19. Long live 680×0 Macs and the classic Mac OS. For simple tasks such as writing, they can provide a great, low distraction environment.
  • Interchangeabilty and Compatibility of Apple 1.4 MB Floppy SuperDrives, Sonic Purity, Mac Daniel, 2007.09.26. Apple used two kinds of high-density floppy drives on Macs, auto-inject and manual inject. Can they be swapped?
  • Apple's Consumer Performa Line, 1992 to 1997, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 2007.09.14. Apple decided to pursue the average consumer by renaming existing Macs, bundling them with software, and putting their colorful boxes in regular retail outlets.
  • Mac System 7.5.5 Can Do Anything Mac OS 7.6.1 Can, Tyler Sable, Classic Restorations, 2007.06.04. Yes, it is possible to run Internet Explorer 5.1.7 and SoundJam with System 7.5.5. You just need to have all the updates – and make one modification for SoundJam.
  • Appearance Manager Allows Internet Explorer 5.1.7 to Work with Mac OS 7.6.1, Max Wallgren, Mac Daniel, 2007.05.23. Want a fairly modern browser with an old, fast operating system? Mac OS 7.6.1 plus the Appearance Manager and Internet Explorer may be just what you want.
  • The Truth About CRTs and Shock Danger, Tom Lee, Online Tech Journal, 2007.05.22. You've been warned that CRT voltage can injure and even kill. The truth is that this danger is overstated – and takes attention away from a greater danger.
  • Format Any Drive for Older Macs with Patched Apple Tools, Tyler Sable, Classic Restorations, 2007.04.25. Apple HD SC Setup and Drive Setup only work with Apple branded hard drives – until you apply the patches linked to this article.
  • Making floppies and CDs for older Macs using modern Macs, Windows, and Linux PCs, Tyler Sable, Classic Restorations, 2007.03.15. Older Macs use HFS floppies and CDs. Here are the free resources you'll need to write floppies or CDs for vintage Macs using your modern computer.
  • Color Me Classic, James & John, RetroMacCast, 2007.01.07. Looking at the Color Classic, an Apple towel, and Susan Kare.
  • System 7 Today, advocates of Apple's ‘orphan' Mac OS 7.6.1, Tommy Thomas, Welcome to Macintosh, 2006.10.26. Why Mac OS 7.6.1 is far better for 68040 and PowerPC Macs than System 7.5.x.
  • 30 days of old school computing: No real hardships, Ted Hodges, Vintage Mac Living, 2006.10.11. These old black-and-white Macs are just fine for messaging, word processing, spreadsheets, scheduling, contact management, and browsing the Web.
  • Jag's House, where older Macs still rock, Tommy Thomas, Welcome to Macintosh, 2006.09.25. Over a decade old, Jag's House is the oldest Mac website supporting classic Macs and remains a great resource for vintage Mac users.
  • 30 days of old school computing: Setting up a Mac Classic II, Ted Hodges, Vintage Mac Living, 2006.09.07. Fond memories of using a Classic II in elementary school lead to it being the first Mac set up for a month of vintage, very low-end computing.
  • Misleading hard drive capacity and the WD settlement, long term Mac value, SCSI drive upgrades, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag, 2006.07.05. Also thoughts on Color Classic upgrades, questions about Low End Mac's online survey, iPod hard drive upgrades, and the value of a used iPod.
  • Floppy drive observations: A compleat guide to Mac floppy drives and disk formats, Scott Baret, Online Tech Journal, 2006.06.29. A history of the Mac floppy from the 400K drive in the Mac 128K through the manual-inject 1.4M SuperDrives used in the late 1990s.
  • Compact Flash with SCSI Macs, PB 1400 CD-RW upgrade problems, and Web incompatibilities, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag, 2006.06.16. Suggested ways to use Compact Flash with vintage Macs and PowerBooks, problems getting CD-RW to work with a PowerBook 1400, and more thoughts on website incompatibilities.
  • Moving files from your new Mac to your vintage Mac, Paul Brierley, The ‘Book Beat, 2006.06.13. Old Macs use floppies; new ones don't. Old Macs use AppleTalk; Tiger doesn't support it. New Macs can burn CDs, but old CD drives can't always read CD-R. So how do you move the files?
  • System 7.6.1 is perfect for many older Macs, John Martorana, That Old Mac Magic, 2006.03.24. Want the best speed from your old Mac? System 7.6.1 can give you that with a fairly small memory footprint – also helpful on older Macs.
  • System 7.5 and Mac OS 7.6: The beginning and end of an era, Tyler Sable, Classic Restorations, 2006.02.15. System 7.5 and Mac OS 7.6 introduced many new features and greater modernity while staying within reach of most early Macintosh models.
  • Turning an LC or other ancient Mac into a webcam with a QuickCam, Tyler Sable, Classic Restorations, 2006.01.25. As long as it has 4 MB of RAM and a hard drive, any 16 MHz or faster Mac that supports color can be configured as a webcam.
  • Web browser tips for the classic Mac OS, Nathan Thompson, Embracing Obsolescence, 2006.01.03. Tips on getting the most out of WaMCom, Mozilla, Internet Explorer, iCab, Opera, and WannaBe using the classic Mac OS.
  • Which system software is best for my vintage Mac?, Tyler Sable, Classic Restorations, 2005.11.22. Which system software works best depends to a great extent on just which Mac you have and how much RAM is installed.
  • Why you should use Mac OS 7.6 to get the most out of vintage Macs, Thomas Ahart, The Productive Mac, 2005.12.12. Although you may be able to run OS 8 or 9 on your old Mac, you'll generally find better performance using Mac OS 7.6.
  • A history of the Color Classic, Tom Hormby, Orchard, 2005.10.31. The first all-in-one Mac with a color display had a bold new look but was crippled on the inside.
  • 10 things new classic Mac owners should know, Paul Brierley, The ‘Book Beat, 2005.12.06. New to compact Macs? Ten things you really should know before you get too confused.
  • The compact Macs, Matthew Glidden, Profiles in Networking, ATPM, 2002.06. LocalTalk and ethernet networking for compact Macs.
  • Colour Classic Upgrade Mega FAQ, Chris Lawson. Want a 640 x 480 screen, 40 MHz 68040, or even a PowerPC in your CC? Learn more here!
  • The 10 worst Macs ever built, Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac, 2001.08.06
  • New Color Classic 640 x 480 screen mod, Chris Lawson, 2001.07.13. Modification requires 520, 550, or 575 motherboard.
  • Colo(u)r Classic Forum, a message board for Color Classic users.
  • Guide to LC PDS Video Cards. Includes Focus, Radius, and RasterOps cards for the LC processor direct slot.
  • CD on CC, Stuart Bell, Colour Classic Compendium. Not one, not two, but three different Colour Classics beautifully modified with internal CD-ROM drives.
  • Upgrading the Color Classic, Chris Lawson, 2001.05.23
  • Best compact Mac for QuickTime, Chris Lawson, 2000.08.30
  • A long-discontinued Macintosh still thrills collectors to the core, Paul Kunkel, New York Times, 8/24/00. Love of the Color Classic, 'one of the most sought-after cult objects in the Mac universe.' [Registration required for this site.]
  • Macintosh Color Classic enhancement page, Jamal Hannah.
  • Games for ‘030s, Brian Rumsey, Low End Mac Gaming, 2000.05.26. A look at games that run nicely on the old 68030-based Macs.
  • Good Macs come in small packages, Wired, 2000.05.15. '…for some Apple enthusiasts, the company will never improve one of its earliest computers, the Color Classic.'
  • Hands on: Sonnet Presto Plus, Mark Looper, 2000.03.02
  • Building a Power Colour Classic, Stuart Bell. Finally, a helpful English-language resource for boosting the Color Classic to a 68040, 603, or even a G3.
  • Review: Sonnet Presto
  • Faster browsing on older Macs, Online Tech Journal
  • Information on 32-bit addressing
  • Email lists: Classic Macs Digest, Compact Macs
  • Color Classic Forever, an obsession
  • Read user reviews of the MicroMac and Sonnet accelerators.
  • Printed reviews: Macworld, April 1993; Mac User, 1993.04
  • Macintosh Color Classic Technical Specifications, Apple Knowledge Base Archive
  • Macintosh Performa 250 Technical Specifications, Apple Knowledge Base Archive

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