--- Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Heh. You do have to actually have a window open in
> list view in order > for that option to be
available, oddly enough. 

Gotcha thanks.

> > 3. Irritating in OSX!  I pull a folder out of>
another> > folder and put it on my desktop.  IT
DOESN’T SIT> WHERE> > I PUT IT!  Instead, it heads out
to appear> somewhere> > ELSE on the desktop.  Nor even
in the same place> every> > time, but in random
places, even BEHIND active> > windows, so I have to
minimize all the windows> looking
> > for it.  Why?> 

> The "grid" view on the Desktop behaves that way.
> This is something that > annoys me as well. With the
Desktop active, go back> to the trusty "View >
options" menu from "View", and uncheck "snap to>
grid". Alternately > consider changing the icon sizes
or spacing; that> might reduce the > flying-icons
problem.

I long ago tried all of that.  Never was snap to grid
ever activated,

> > 4.  I do not have Speech turned on, yet the round>
> microphone doohicky-jobby ALWAYS appears on my>
desktop> > and there is no way to get rid of it!  The
best I> can> > do is minimize it.

> It might be on by default. Under X.3, if you get
> into the "Speech" 
> control panel and look under the "On/Off" section,
> there's a checkbox 
> that reads "Turn on Speakable Items at login". Make
> sure that's not 
> checked. 

Did that long ago.

Also, X.3 has command-/ set up as being the
> toggle to activate 
> the speakable items. If you're pressing that
> combination inadvertently, 
> it could be activating speech.

A danger for a guy like me who uses lots of
reconfigured Quickeys... but no.  It is off, off, off!
 And the goodgie-McFlopper disk won't go away.

Thanks.

db
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