[X4U] Desktop too large for display?

Neil Laubenthal neil at laubenthal.net
Sun Dec 23 17:21:42 PST 2007


Sounds like Universal Access got turned on in System Preferences . . .  
take a look there and see if it just needs turning off.




On Dec 23, 2007, at 19:14, Teddi Pomaika'i Stransky wrote:

> 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.



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