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Offline bellbram

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« on: December 14, 2006, 03:26:57 AM »
Should have mentioned these in my previous.

My earlier attempts at sorting things out have resulted in a couple or three other weirds.

No.1  When I open my HD, the left-hand panel no longer shows my 'Home' icon.
         How to get it back?

No.2  Occasionally when using the mouse a pale grey rectangle appears on the  
         screen.  Holding the mouse away from the pad usually makes it disappear
         but it's a little annoyance I could do without. It happens regardless of the
         mouse I use — a Magic mouse, wireless mouse, Intellimouse or Logitech.
         The cure?

N.3    Occasionally, for no apparent reason, the window I'm working on almost
         vanishes, either to the left or right of the screen, leaving just a grey line
         showing at the extreme edge.  Clicking on that grey line brings the window
         back, but it's irritating.   How to stop it happening?
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« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2006, 07:22:34 AM »
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No.1 When I open my HD, the left-hand panel no longer shows my 'Home' icon.
How to get it back?

Open Finder prefereces, at the top click on Sidebar, tick the box for home.
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No.2 Occasionally when using the mouse a pale grey rectangle appears on the
screen. Holding the mouse away from the pad usually makes it disappear
but it's a little annoyance I could do without. It happens regardless of the
mouse I use — a Magic mouse, wireless mouse, Intellimouse or Logitech.
The cure?
Any chance the mouse(s) has a scroll wheel?  pressing down on the middle button, under the scroll wheel, does that in Firefox for me, and the page will automatically do a slow scroll, in what direction I move the mouse above or below the box.  Clicking once more makes it stop.
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N.3 Occasionally, for no apparent reason, the window I'm working on almost
vanishes, either to the left or right of the screen, leaving just a grey line
showing at the extreme edge. Clicking on that grey line brings the window
back, but it's irritating. How to stop it happening?

Only happens to me in Adobe CS products, but I'm not familar with Tiger, yet!
« Last Edit: December 14, 2006, 07:23:34 AM by jepinto »
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« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2006, 11:32:59 AM »
Thanks Jenny.  Have a good Christmas.
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« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2006, 02:22:06 PM »
Thinking.gif That sure sounds like you are hitting the F11 key. That's what is supposed to happen when that keep is pressed. Not sure how you stop it, it's built into the OS, it's part of Expose ( F9, F10, F11 ). You may be able to reassign those functions to different keystrokes. On some keyboards, it's easy to hit F11 instead of "delete". Same thing happens when I sometimes hit the "help" key when I meant to use "delete". doh.gif
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« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2006, 08:25:16 AM »
QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Dec 14 2006, 08:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Thinking.gif That sure sounds like you are hitting the F11 key. That's what is supposed to happen when that keep is pressed. Not sure how you stop it, it's built into the OS, it's part of Expose ( F9, F10, F11 ). You may be able to reassign those functions to different keystrokes. On some keyboards, it's easy to hit F11 instead of "delete". Same thing happens when I sometimes hit the "help" key when I meant to use "delete". doh.gif



It's definitely not the F11 key, which on my board sits up between the + and - keys.

It's a completely random happening and comes up on mouse movement, nothing to do with the keyboard.  It's a fairly recent happening — since I messed about with something else.  Trouble is I forget what it was   wallbash.gif
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« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2006, 01:25:24 PM »
"messed about with something else" You haven't been playing with any 'mouse gesture' software, have you? They can be trained to see certain, explicit mouse movements as almost anything, including keyboard shortcuts/inputs.

It could even be a flaky keyboard. Do you have another you can swap out and use for a while?
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« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2006, 07:00:27 AM »
You may have Expose set to activate when the mouse enters the corners of the screen.

Go into your system prefs to Expose and see what is selected.
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« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2006, 07:11:40 AM »
QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Dec 15 2006, 07:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
"messed about with something else" You haven't been playing with any 'mouse gesture' software, have you? They can be trained to see certain, explicit mouse movements as almost anything, including keyboard shortcuts/inputs.

It could even be a flaky keyboard. Do you have another you can swap out and use for a while?



Yes I do and I will, but I really think it's a mouse problem (see my response to krissel ).

Another weird thing is that I'm now constantly losing desktop icons.  Sometimes if the mouse just passes over an icon, the darned thing whips of the screen.  All icons on the screen are aliases, so I can always put them back, but it's darned annoying.

I'm almost inclined to do an Archive & Install, but am a bit leery of that as I've so much vital stuff and thopugh it's all backed up to an external.....one never knows!

QUOTE(krissel @ Dec 16 2006, 01:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
You may have Expose set to activate when the mouse enters the corners of the screen.

Go into your system prefs to Expose and see what is selected.



Kris, I had a look and found that something was set to use 'Secondary button'.  Not sure how that came about, but I've now reset it to '-' so that may do some good.
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