User:Xeverything11/sandbox/Change Wallpaper in Classic Mac OS

Steps

Open the Appearance window. Click the Apple icon at top-left corner, resembling a rainbow Apple icon on color Macs, or a black Apple icon on monochrome Macs. In the Apple menu, hover over Control Panels and click Appearance.^[1]
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Click the Desktop tab. It's the fourth tab at top of window.^[1]
File:Change Wallpaper in Classic Mac OS Step 2.png
Select a pattern. Scroll through a list of patterns and select one you like. Click Set Desktop to change the current wallpaper to the selected pattern.^[1]
File:Change Wallpaper in Classic Mac OS Step 3.png
Set a picture as a wallpaper. Click Place Picture..., then in the selection window, browse through the list of pictures, then select a picture and click Open. Then click Set Desktop to change the current wallpaper to the selected picture.^[1]
File:Change Wallpaper in Classic Mac OS Step 4.png
- You may want to adjust the position of the picture. Click the dropdown below Remove Picture and choose one of the options:
  - Tile on Screen - This creates a tile of multiple pictures arranged horizontally and vertically. Recommended for pictures of 256x256 or less resolution.
  - Center on Screen - This centers the picture.
  - Scale to Screen - This scales the picture to fit the screen.
  - Fill Screen - This stretches the picture to all sides to fill the screen.

Open the Desktop Pictures window. Click the Apple icon at top-left corner, resembling a rainbow Apple icon on color Macs, or a black Apple icon on monochrome Macs. In the Apple menu, hover over Control Panels and click Desktop Pictures.^[2]
File:Change Wallpaper in Classic Mac OS Step 5.png
Scroll through a gallery of patterns. Use the scrollbar below pattern to scroll and select a pattern you like.^[2]
File:Change Wallpaper in Classic Mac OS Step 6.png
Click Set Desktop. It's at bottom-right corner of the window. This will set your desired pattern as the wallpaper.^[2]
File:Change Wallpaper in Classic Mac OS Step 7.png
Set a picture as a wallpaper. Click Picture tab at left and click Select Picture..., then in the selection window, browse through the list of pictures, then select a picture and click Open. Then click Set Desktop to change the current wallpaper to the selected picture.^[2]
File:Change Wallpaper in Classic Mac OS Step 8.png
- You may want to adjust the position of the picture. Click the dropdown to the left of Remove Picture and choose one of the options:
  - Tile on Screen - This creates a tile of multiple pictures arranged horizontally and vertically. Recommended for pictures of 256x256 or less resolution.
  - Center on Screen - This centers the picture.
  - Scale to Screen - This scales the picture to fit the screen.
  - Fill Screen - This stretches the picture to all sides to fill the screen.

Open the Desktop Patterns window. Click the Apple icon at top-left corner, resembling a rainbow Apple icon on color Macs, or a black Apple icon on monochrome Macs. In the Apple menu, hover over Control Panels and click Desktop Patterns.
File:Change Wallpaper in Classic Mac OS Step 9.png
Scroll through a gallery of patterns. Use the scrollbar below pattern to scroll and select a pattern you like.
File:Change Wallpaper in Classic Mac OS Step 10.png
Click Set Desktop Pattern. It's at bottom-right corner of the window. This will set your desired pattern as the wallpaper.
File:Change Wallpaper in Classic Mac OS Step 11.png

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Pogue, D. (2000). Mac OS 9 (pp. 53–57). Pogue Press.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Danuloff, C. (1997). The Mac OS 8 book : the ultimate Macintosh user’s guide (4th ed., pp. 99–101). Research Triangle Park, NC : Ventana.