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The weirdest OS X or Powerbook bug
12 Mar 2004 by Jason Fried
So weird. A section of the bottom left corner of my screens (I have dual monitor set-up) doesn’t respond to mouse clicks. I can mouse over and through it just fine, but if I click down there nothing happens.
Plus, it seems like the dead area is proportional to the size of the screen (it’s smaller on the Powerbook’s screen than on the 22” Cinema Display’s screen). It’s hard to measure, but it’s at least a couple inches square on the big screen. Has anyone else experienced this?
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12 Mar 2004 | kev said...
It's because you enabled that hint from MacOSXHints.com that makes "Show Desktop" Expos mouse gestures put all the windows into a tiny little box instead of shoving them off of the screen. This box, when not in use, becomes un-clickable during normal use. Which is why it's not an official feature of Panther. ;)
12 Mar 2004 | taken from Star Wars Episode III, A New Hope - spoken by Han Solo (Harrison Ford). said...
That's no bug... it's a space station.
13 Mar 2004 | Dom said...
Actually, I'm pretty sure Obe Wan said that, to which Han replied " No way you crazy old man, I know a giant periodic cicada when I see one :)"
14 Mar 2004 | Freddy said...
Weirder: my original Panther install would intermittently display passwords in plain text within the login dialog and the text inside the buttons of the same dialog would change when mouse-downed. I suspected a buffer overrun, never heard back from Apple, eventually reinstalled the entire thing and haven't seen it since.
14 Mar 2004 | tim said...
[pedantic]... and the line from above is from Episode IV, not III.[/pedantic]
