Josh Michaels

I tried exactly this and it doesn't survive a reboot unless you lock the plist file. The system will write out the values it has in memory over the values...

Actually let me correct myself there, I didn't try actually killing the Wallpaper Agent. It's possible that by doing that, you've found a way to avoid it writing out the...

Yeah, I can confirm, that this works. The drawback is that the wallpaper disappears for a second while it's happening. But if the app can kill WallpaperAgent without other consequences...

i'll be surprised if the wallpaper flicker can be avoided other than with a cosmetic hack. it is reloading the wallpaper. this trick also works for changing the wallpaper.

important side note, it appears the killall WallpaperAgent approach does NOT update the classic plist setting, so it will need to be set this way AND set the classic way.