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

Victoria L. Herring vlh at herringlaw.com
Mon Dec 3 19:19:41 CST 2007


Yes = I'll try the key command.  I turned off VoiceOver = it wasn't 
on at all anyway and turned offf Universal Access and rebooted  -- 
oddly enough when I opened Keynote it disappears...but otherwise it's 
there...

>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. 
>>515/255-4475;  iChat AV:  victoriaherring at mac.com;  Skype: 
>>vlherring.
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Victoria L. Herring, Attorney in Des Moines, Iowa -  Civil rights, 
Discrimination & Employment Law, http://www.herringlaw.com.  Ph. 
515/255-4475;  iChat AV:  victoriaherring at mac.com;  Skype:  vlherring.


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