Leopard/G4: Unwanted captions and duplication in menus
Earlier this week, the following oddities appeared: A dark border like that which would appear around a selected spreadsheet cell began to crop up all over the place. That's what I mean by captions. It appears around desktop icons when they are selected, and around the HD icon before anything is selected. It appears in Finder (usually surrounding a frame of the window) and application windows (including 3rd party apps, there first appearing as a rectangle in the upper left corner) and dialog boxes (around one of the response buttons) when they open. It surrounds a frame in Safari windows when they open and moves according to selection thereafter. My Apple menu now looks like this in Finder (and all apps, substituting app name for Finder): About This Mac System Profiler... Software Update... Mac OS X Software... System Preferences... Dock Location Recent Items Force Quit... (shortcut) Force Quit Finder (different shortcut) Sleep Restart... Restart Shut Down... Shut Down Log Out Sean Carroll... (shortcut) Log Out Sean Carroll (different shortcut) The Safari menu duplicates Private Browsing, and there are also duplicates in Safari's file menu (but in no other Safari menus). No other apps, whether Apple or 3rd party, show the same duplications in menus aside from the Apple menu. Has anyone encountered anything like this? I see that a very recent clone to an external drive predating this trouble doesn't show these annoying new wrinkles. That suggests a rather simple solution, assuming that the problem MUST be software (which I can't), but I would actually rather understand and fix if possible (something learned that way). I haven't changed any Preferences anywhere. The only recent software installation was updating CCC. I haven't opened any questionable-looking email attachments or followed any questionable website's injunction to click OK in their dialog box, either. The first thing that came to mind was funky PRAM, although no other signs of such were or have been noted. I did zap PRAM in advance of a possible battery change, but that had no effect. Just looking for clues. Thanks. Sean Sawtooth 1.6 GHz, 2 GB RAM, SATA HD, Radeon 9800 Pro and a whole bunch o' cards and whatnot Running Leopard 10.5.8 current with all the latest Apple updates for it -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Leopard/G4: Unwanted captions and duplication in menus
On Oct 27, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: Earlier this week, the following oddities appeared: A dark border like that which would appear around a selected spreadsheet cell began to crop up all over the place. That's what I mean by captions. I don't recognize this particular issue, but this is the sort of weird thing that happens when you accidentally turn on some of the Universal access stuff. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Leopard/G4: Unwanted captions and duplication in menus
I don't recognize this particular issue, but this is the sort of weird thing that happens when you accidentally turn on some of the Universal access stuff. I'd considered that earlier. Although I haven't been in the Universal Access preferences in ages, it seemed possible that something might have messed with them just the same. So I had a look and didn't notice anything different. At Bruce's mention, I decided to look again. Aha. In the Seeing tab of Universal Access, VoiceOver and Zoom were on. But... but... how?? (Piecing it back together now, I'm guessing that I had Zoom selected on to begin with. Still... VoiceOver?) Command-F5. See, when you edit a craigslist post, as the last step, you're asked to hit Control-F5. Absent-minded fingers are wont to land on the common Command key instead. Bingo, VoiceOver selected and the attendant weirdness. Thank you, Bruce! Problem solved. Sean -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Leopard/G4: Unwanted captions and duplication in menus
On Oct 27, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: Thank you, Bruce! Problem solved. Great catch! I love it when someone solves an issue that they haven't really had direct experience with. It's like a good puzzle solution. Few of us here have much experience with Universal Access features, so this one deserves special commendation: GOLD STAR Bruce! -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Duplication
G'day to all Thought I would give this another try Approx. five months ago I posted that I was receiving double, treble copies of ALL emails from this group, which was filling my inbox in a big way. At that time Dan replied that Google would fix this little error, so not to worry about it. Well as I have said this was five months ago, and I am still receiving all these extra copies of every email from the group. Does anyone else have this problem, or is it just me, and if it is only me, would anyone know of a remedy ? I am using a G3 iBook 366ghz with 576mb ram, running 10.4.11 Also using G5 iMac 2.0ghz with 2gb ram running 10.4.11, using Yahoo Mail both machines Regards - Ron -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Duplication
Ron, I do not believe this is a problem with this particular list I think the problem is specific to Yahoo. I receive duplicate emails using Yahoo with this list, Yahoo Lists, and other lists. I also receive duplicates from friends or people emailing me directly. With me its a sparse thing (It doesn't happen on every email). I would suggest you check with Yahoo or try using a different email provider to narrow this down. Also, since you are receiving duplicates of every email I would suggest that you check that you don't have multiple subscriptions to other email accounts that might be forwarding to your Yahoo email. Thanks, Albert From: ainsies ains...@gmail.com To: G-Group g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 8:31 AM Subject: Duplication G'day to all Thought I would give this another try Approx. five months ago I posted that I was receiving double, treble copies of ALL emails from this group, which was filling my inbox in a big way. At that time Dan replied that Google would fix this little error, so not to worry about it. Well as I have said this was five months ago, and I am still receiving all these extra copies of every email from the group. Does anyone else have this problem, or is it just me, and if it is only me, would anyone know of a remedy ? I am using a G3 iBook 366ghz with 576mb ram, running 10.4.11 Also using G5 iMac 2.0ghz with 2gb ram running 10.4.11, using Yahoo Mail both machines Regards - Ron -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Duplication
At 5:31 AM -0700 3/14/2011, ainsies wrote: G'day to all Thought I would give this another try Approx. five months ago I posted that I was receiving double, treble copies of ALL emails from this group, which was filling my inbox in a big way. At that time Dan replied that Google would fix this little error, so not to worry about it. Well as I have said this was five months ago, and I am still receiving all these extra copies of every email from the group. Does anyone else have this problem, or is it just me, and if it is only me, would anyone know of a remedy ? wow. :( Um, the dups I was seeing stopped long ago, and I haven't seen complaints about such recently. Just messages from G3-5-List or from all your subscribed google groups or ? Go into your GMail account on the web and verify that the messages are located there in duplicate. If they are, then go into your groups.google account and check the settings. Maybe turn off emails for a day then turn it back on. (guessing). If they aren't, then the problem is between GMail and your mail client. Go check all the settings in each. Make sure you're not telling it to leave mail unmarked as read, or re-reading things or something. I am using a G3 iBook 366ghz with 576mb ram, running 10.4.11 Also using G5 iMac 2.0ghz with 2gb ram running 10.4.11, using Yahoo Mail both machines Your return email address here is @gmail, not yahoo! And the full headers show a direct path, Gmail to Groups. How exactly is Yahoo Mail involved? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
