r/MacOS • u/pqmIII • 9h ago

Help Wallpaper on Virtual Desktops all the same (with random shuffle selected)after Golden Gate update

I was wondering seeing if you all can help with a minor annoyance I’ve had since updating to Golden Gate. I have a plethora of landscape photos taken from our travels and one of the nice things about Tahoe was that you can have different pictures across your virtual desktops (I had it set to random shuffle so random wallpapers were displayed across the virtual desktops). However after the update to Golden Gate, the wallpapers shuffle randomly, but they are the same picture across my desktops.

Interestingly enough, the pictures are different on external, dock connected monitors but still the same on my MacBook screen virtual desktops. I have the random picture setting enabled on wallpaper and have it show on all spaces (same settings I had on Tahoe).

Just a bit perplexed on why the random picture shuffle is now disabled across desktops. It was a nice way to go down memory lane and revisit places that we have been to, which is why it is a slight annoyance. Is anyone else having this issue as well? Is there a setting that I am missing to enable it?

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u/No-Bass3599 8h ago

Try turning off "Show on all Spaces". On recent versions that toggle clones one wallpaper across every Space, so set the shuffle folder separately while you're on each desktop. Annoying with a lot of Spaces, but it's how I got different photos per desktop back after an update reset mine

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u/pqmIII 8h ago

Thanks! I’ll try that method. I remember the show on all spaces randomizing them in Tahoe but since I only have five spaces should be too hard.