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Little snippet to capture the current screen in OSX and set it as Background Picture. Works for multiple Desktops by just ignoring errors. :-) Useful if you got a fullscreen App that might crash and have a fallback with a still image while restarting. I use this quite often in a tradefair context... have fun!
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| # usage: ./snapdesk.sh user@localhost | |
| TARGET=$1 | |
| echo $TARGET; | |
| ssh $TARGET << 'ENDSSH' | |
| mkdir -p ~/snapdesk; | |
| screencapture ~/snapdesk/1.png ~/snapdesk/2.png ~/snapdesk/3.png ~/snapdesk/4.png ~/snapdesk/5.png; | |
| osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to set picture of desktop 1 to "~/snapdesk/1.png"' | |
| osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to set picture of desktop 2 to "~/snapdesk/2.png"' | |
| osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to set picture of desktop 3 to "~/snapdesk/3.png"' | |
| osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to set picture of desktop 4 to "~/snapdesk/4.png"' | |
| osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to set picture of desktop 5 to "~/snapdesk/5.png"' | |
| ENDSSH | |
| scp -r $TARGET:./snapdesk/ "./snapdesk_$TARGET" |
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