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#1 2008-01-07 12:59 pm
- cheeryble
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Shifting/wobbling/moving screen in Mac OSX
Hi there
been using Mac for quite some years and never came across this.
(Black Macbook using 10:4:11)
For several days I've had a slight wobble of the the whole picture on the screen, including any open windows, the desktop, and the bar along the top which has the name of the window on top, along with battery status, time etc.
It moves when the mouse or fingerpad finger moves and in the opposite direction. It is slight, about a couple of millimetres, but quite annoying. If two or three fingers are used on the fingerpad there is no movement.
Any brainwaves anyone?
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#2 2008-01-07 2:50 pm
Re: Shifting/wobbling/moving screen in Mac OSX
A universal access zoom feature has kicked probably in the course of accidently holding Control while scrolling. Control-scroll the screen so it is back to its proper size.
Stickies topic and considers a more descriptive name since the "problem" catches someone unaware about once a week.
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#3 2008-01-07 2:53 pm
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Seems to happen often these days 
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#4 2008-01-07 2:55 pm
- Colonel Panic
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Re: Shifting/wobbling/moving screen in Mac OSX
Ctrl + option + + 8 should fix it.
Have you tried repairing permissions?
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#5 2008-01-07 3:05 pm
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Colonel Panic wrote:
Ctrl + option + + 8 should fix it.
That was his lame attempt at a joke but at least it's completely harmless and is reversible with the same command. Though it is a a cool effect if you do it while expecting it but it's had a history of freaking out people unaware of its existence. Right Jackson?
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#7 2008-01-07 9:52 pm
- cheeryble
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Re: Shifting/wobbling/moving screen in Mac OSX
Thank u it's now perfect and I like being able to zoom like that!!
John
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#8 2008-01-08 8:04 am
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I prefer ctrl+scroll wheel. Zooms in and out.
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#9 2008-01-08 9:11 am
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Re: Shifting/wobbling/moving screen in Mac OSX
ukimalefu wrote:
I prefer ctrl+scroll wheel. Zooms in and out.
That may be a little too easy. I think apple's inclusion of scrolling mice with new machines and the growing number of people running 10.4+ is the reason this question is becoming more and more common.
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#10 2008-04-21 8:52 am
#11 2008-04-21 10:00 am
Re: Shifting/wobbling/moving screen in Mac OSX
pottymouth wrote:
ukimalefu wrote:
I prefer ctrl+scroll wheel. Zooms in and out.
That may be a little too easy. I think apple's inclusion of scrolling mice with new machines and the growing number of people running 10.4+ is the reason this question is becoming more and more common.
It's OPTION, not control in OS X 10.5
Or maybe I made a mistake on my previous post, I'm not sure.
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#12 2008-04-21 11:12 am
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Re: Shifting/wobbling/moving screen in Mac OSX
I guess they fixed this issue in 10.5.2.
Now if you zoom in only a few ticks it automagically goes back to normal after a few seconds.
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