[X4U] Desktop too large for display?

[Teddi Pomaika'i Stransky]

That was it. Thanks for your help!!

>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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