At 11:54 PM -0500 1/3/2011, Bill Connelly wrote:
On Jan 3, 2011, at 10:22 PM, peter wrote:
It's just the windows, text, certain icons at the top of the screen
(Growl,
Is Growl trying to tell you something is happening in the
background? Incoming call or something?
Not sure how Growl works, although I have it loaded but turned off.
Growl is a simple notification system; a small background application
and a preferences pane.
The icon in the menu bar is totally unnecessary; it can be turned off.
When an app growls, Growl displays a small alert on the screen,
containing the message from the app, in the style you've selected.
If multiple notifications arrive quickly, then Growl tiles them down
your screen. (you can easily make them all go away by opt-clicking
one). That's all it does. It does nothing that would account for a
whole screen going gray.
At 1:08 AM -0500 1/4/2011, PETER WARNER wrote:
Famous Last Word... As per Alex, I checked Console, and there were a
bunch of errors fro Growl
But you don't want to disclose them?
It would help if you showed us the actual error message involved!
What else is there?
What else do you have running on your Mac?
Have you changed any of the transparency settings?
and it seems a Growl like action, to reduce most of the screen while
showing an alert. I stopped Growl, and Growl Mail, and restarted.
Logging out, and back in did not work, it had to be a full restart.
Perhaps I'll avoid the Growl in the future...
Growl does NOT gray out the whole screen, ever.
Growl is run as a USER process. Logging out kills the processes - no
reboot needed.
If you needed to reboot to clear things then *something else* is doing this.
- Dan.
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