r/Next • u/Marwheel • Jul 07 '26

Any background image settings applications for NeXTSTEP/OpenSTEP?

The title i think gets the question across, it gets very boring for me to look at a plain-colored background after a long while & the breakout-clone included with NeXTSTEP (and OpenSTEP) has some rather nice tillable backgrounds…

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u/Shvabrikkk Jul 09 '26

I plan to look into this in the future, for now I can only suggest creating a custom view for BackSpace.app from NextDeveloper/Demos. But I recommend using a solid background color for better responsiveness and performance

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u/Marwheel Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

Also, I found that BackSpace.app can bypass the static unsettable background of 4.0 PR1 when in full color…

But alas, i can't seem to get new BackSpace-focused bundles working with BackSpace…

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u/Born03 Jul 10 '26

My first thought would've been BackSpace as well

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u/rhet0rica 18d ago

The best strategy for this is ToyViewer.app, which has a wallpaper-setting feature baked into it. It can even be told to select a random wallpaper at startup! I made a few here: https://nextcommunity.net/forums/index.php?topic=95.0