[DM-MUG] odd Q ref rectangle on my screen

Matthew W. maccelerate at earthlink.net
Mon Dec 3 18:56:06 CST 2007


Did you open the VoiceOver Utility button in Universal Access and  
click Reset at the bottom? There is a key command (Shft-Cmd-5?) that  
many of our users click from time-to-time. You shouldn't have to  
restart.

Matthew

On Dec 3, 2007, at 3:44 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

> I have looked also in Apple's Discussion forums and it appears to  
> be related to the Voice Over utility part of Universal Access  
> [although I didn't have it turned on] - I clicked the off button  
> just in case and deleted the plist and rebooted and the rectangle  
> is still there...I gather from other discussions a new user will be  
> needed = which is a pain but doable.  Other than how do I move all  
> my stuff from User 1 [me, now with the rectangle] to User 2, sans  
> rectangle but also no data etc.  ???  TimeMachine is running fine  
> but I'm not sure that's the method.
>
>
>
> This is on my MacPro and it doesn't prevent anything but it  
> prevents the cursor from going outside the rectangle without moving  
> the rectangle.
>
> I hit some keystroke on my keyboard -- up jumps a black rectangle on
> top of the screen = only the 4 borders show but I can't move my
> cursor out of it without either expanding the lines or moving the
> rectangle...I pushed escape and nothing happened. I can't restart
> due to other processes going on right now -- I seem to remember this
> may be something in Leopard but don't know what keystrokes I hit so I
> can't just go to that program and fix it...any ideas???
> -- 
> Victoria L. Herring, Attorney in Des Moines, Iowa -  Civil rights,  
> Discrimination & Employment Law, http://www.herringlaw.com.  Ph.  
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