its probably your voiceover text panel. if you turn off voiceover )command F5) it should go away. this probably doesn't do you any good if you depend on voice. There is a setting in the voiceover control panel to make that invisible. let me look into it and see if that can be done.
-Eric p.s. a blind person "looking" into making a desktop item invisible. I'd laugh if it weren't so true. :) On Apr 9, 2011, at 7:05 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > Please! can someone tell me what the heck this thing is? > > When I'm on my macbook, there is something at the bottom left margin of my > screen, no, I haven't installed anything on this system aside Syrinx, and > Skype 5.0, and they're not even running, oh, and IWorks. Anyway, that isn't > running either, btw, nothing aside my finder is. I'm not set to white on > black, it's set totally normally. > > I have this really really weird God knows what thing a mejigger at the bottom > of my screen, regardless what application I am in. I don't have enough > vision to see it well enough to move the mouse to it and click on it, it's > not a battery low notification either, as my chargert s plugged into the > Macbook. I've not changed anything with my dashboard nor my exposé. It's > not my dock as I have that hidden, but there is this black colored background > thing that is about maybe half an inch above my dock an inch at most, and I > cannot for the life a me figure out what the hell it is, or how to make it go > away. It's driving me nuts! as with the little vision I do have, it's > clutterring the bottom left margin of the screen. No matter what window I > have in focus, and no matter what window within the current app has focus, > it's always down there in the foreground. It covers up the bottom left > margin of my desktop wallpaper, and also covers up anything that would be > down there behind it. It's always in the foreground, case closed. > > Does anyone know what on heaven's earth! this might be, and if so! Please, I > beg of you! Tell me how to turn it off! It's driving me crazy! > > Chris. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
