full screen blues with black border
 

Hi all, I have been having something bug me for the last year and a half that I have been unable to resolve. I am hoping that someone here will be able to help me.

When ever I play an application like itunes or Freefall full screen, I get a black border after I exit full screen. I have to push it to the edge with my mouse which results in the menu bar darkening to the point of where it is distasteful. If I Expose, show desktop, the black border reappears which is evidence that it is still there. In order for me to completely get rid of it, I have been logging out and in again.

This will fix it until I go to full screen again using itunes or Freefall. Does anyone have a fix for this? If so, I would like to hear from you.

http://homepage.mac.com/ronosx/fulls...Theater13.html

thx
RLC

P.S. First, I want to apologize for the video and the time it takes to load the movie, but I do not know of a better way to describe what I am seeing when I use itunes or Freefall in full screen mode.

Does the problem happen if you log in as a different user?

What model of Mac do you have?
Any non-Apple hardware?

You could try the standard troubleshooting suggestions:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...04011205473937
http://forums.osxfaq.com/viewtopic.php?t=7269
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/faqs.html

I have tried the following so far.
 

It doesn't happen when I go to another user. I have tried diskwarrior, resetting the vram, pram, etc... running repair permission. I did the hardward test. I have done fsck. I took out every item in my startup menu. I have tried a lot of things already and nothing has stopped this from happening.

thx
RLC

That means that the problem almost certainly is due to something under your home folder.
And it likely is something under ~/Library
( ~ = your home folder)

The most likely thing is a bad preference file under ~/Library/Preferences
You could start by removing the preference files for the apps you are having trouble with.

If the problem persists, you need to narrow the problem down - you could start by moving (via drag & drop) the whole "Preferences" folder that is under ~/Library to the Desktop, then log out and log in again. A default copy of the Preferences folder will have been recreated. Does that improve things? If so, you could use a divide & conquer approach to figure out which of the preference files is causing the problem - move half of the preference files back into the Preferences folder, log out & in again, etc.

For those readers that had ConflictCatcher installed on their preXstoric systems, this is the approach that CC used. A very tedious but sure thing approach by a binary sort - the twenty questions reduction.

It was a universal access preference file. thanks RLC
 

hayne, thanks for the suggestion. I located it, it was the com.apple.universalaccess.plist. I trashed it and all is ok. These troubleshooting guides are great.

thx
RLC