[X4U] Desktop too large for display?

[Michael Elliott]

There us a key combination for the zoom that must gave been  
accidentally hit. It's listed in the system preferences pane.

I'm not in a position to check at the moment as I'm at the "Alvin and  
the Chipmunks" movie with 4 five year olds. Looks like the iPhone just  
paid for itself ;-)

Michael
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On Dec 23, 2007, at 7:26 PM, Thomas W Noel <tnoel at mac.com> wrote:

> You have accidentally turned on "Zoom" in the Universal access  
> System Preference pane.
>
>
> On Dec 23, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Teddi Pomaika'i Stransky wrote:
>
>> Mac Pro; 2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon; 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB- 
>> DIMM; OS 10.4.10
>> 21" ViewSonic Flatscreen (main video), 17" Dell flatscreen (side  
>> video - vertical)
>>
>> First let me note that I was on the machine yesterday (12/22/07)  
>> almost all day and it was fine; I did some photo editing, set up  
>> several documents for the local church, chatted online with my  
>> sister, and played some games. Both monitors were up and running  
>> without issues. For much of the day I was playing a high-end video- 
>> intensive MMPORPG game (World of Warcraft) and had no glitches or  
>> problems. The machine shut down as normal, and to my knowledge  
>> there were no alien spacecraft or cosmic events in the neighborhood  
>> during the night.
>>
>> This morning when I booted the machine, the display was bizarre. It  
>> appears that the desktop is too large for the screen; I have to  
>> 'scroll' to the top of the screen to reach the Finder bar. As I  
>> move the mouse on the screen, the desktop image shifts to  
>> compensate ... i.e. if I move the mouse to the left, the desktop  
>> shifts to the right, and vice-versa in all directions, including  
>> diagonally. This is true whether I am on the desktop or in an  
>> application window, and affects both monitors. The constant  
>> swimming motion is actually nauseating, as I'm prone to vertigo due  
>> to inner-ear birth defects.
>>
>> I checked all the display settings, as far as I could tell nothing  
>> had changed. I then tried changing them, but the same problem  
>> exists with different resolutions and display settings. After  
>> exhausting all the settings variations I could come up with; I got  
>> out my install disks. Booting from the install disk seemed to  
>> stabilize things, so I did an "Archive and Install" and rolled the  
>> machine back to the OS (10.4.8) which it had on delivery. That went  
>> fine to all appearances ... but when I booted up after the install,  
>> the problem is still here.
>>
>> Anybody seen this one before?  I've found nothing on the  
>> troubleshooting forums at Apple, but I've not come up with many  
>> appropriate search terms. "Desktop too large for display" brought  
>> nothing helpful.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your input.
>>
>> Teddi
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