full screen blues with black border

[roncross@cox.net]

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.

[hayne]

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

[roncross@cox.net]

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

[hayne]

Quote: Originally Posted by roncross@cox.net It doesn't happen when I go to another user.

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.

[NovaScotian]

Quote: Originally Posted by hayne 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.

[roncross@cox.net]

Quote: Originally Posted by hayne 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)

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