I would like to change the background images of folders in Mac OS 10.9 based on their name. I can't seem to find any way of changing the background picture in Python or much information about the background picture in general.
I believe things such as background image and icon positioning are stored in the .DS_Store, is it a possibility to modify this to change the image?
If it is not possible in Python is there a suggested language to be able to so this?
I believe things such as background image and icon positioning are stored in the .DS_Store, is it a possibility to modify this to change the image?
you can explore the DS_Store settings using the xattr command, or the ls -@ command if you're using default osx utils.
If it is not possible in Python is there a suggested language to be able to so this?
there is the xattr python package that lets you do this.
For the background images, I found that answer though it's mostly about DMGs.
Though, there's a graphical recipe to actually change a folder's background, I still can't find the extended attribute property being used there…
I did change a folder's background, but there's no extended attributes setting that has been changed because of that. And that folder contains no .DS_Store file as well. That information maybe stored in some Application Support or Preferences database used by the finder…
Finally, you could code your own DS_Store parsing module easily, using the following information:
which tells us that the DS_Store has indeed a background field.
Finally, it looks like perl has a DS_Store module:
