Re: [PRODIG] Slow Mac mouse etc.

[Richard Kenward]

matthew ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes

Dear Mathew

Thanks for the figures.

Hmmm
21 inch monitor OS 9.2  1920 x 1200 = 51/2 inch
                                           1280 x 1024 = 4 inch
OS X                                   1280 x 1240 = 3 inch
Are you running some phenomenal resoulution?

Res. 1152x870 75Hz too low a refresh rate, would like it up at 85Hz which it does on an ME box with a six year old Matrox 4Mb card. The Mac has a 16Mb card. At this setting the screen width is a tad too wide. Does this have any bearing on the adapter one uses to go from the Mac to the PC LaCie monitor? Our Lindy adapter proved to be faulty and a local Mac user very kindly has lent one for a couple of days, so there is an urgent need to get the right one, the fitting on the Mac is about 25x8mm...anyone in the UK got a spare to sell?

It strikes me that if your mouse movement distances are at the fastest setting, they are surprisingly large to what I personally am used to and like. If these distances are widespread, then it seems rather amiss that one simply cannot choose a smaller movement distance as everyone has different needs.

Discussions about Win2K's and wrist actions will probably get a slap from the list mummy.

You should be safe as long as it is factual I would think, but I am not in the driving seat this week<G>

Second question...found out how to set a plain grey desktop scheme but would like it a much darker grey than the defaults but cannot see how to change it.

In PS make a pretty grey background to your liking 1cmx1cm @72 dpi tiff.
Save it to where you put these things
Apple>control panels>appearance
Click Desktop
Click place picture
go find where you put your grey picture
Click open
scroll to fill screen
set desk top
close
done

Thanks.

BTW I have been aware for a long time that mounting is an important act in Mac operations, but can someone please let me into the secret of mounting. How do you do it, when and where? Oh yes this box is running 9.1

Sorry I don't understand what you don't understand.
If you stick a drive into a mac, it in general automatically mounts it onto the desktop; ie you get an icon and the thing works. When you have finished with it, you drag the icon to the trash (unmounting it I suppose) and it tells you it is safe to remove it. If you simply remove the drive the mac sometimes sulks until you restart it.

Thanks...just one of those Mac things which you have learnt from so long ago I imagine!

Cheers

Richard
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