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i've always liked to think that i am a knowledgeable mac user. but in this case i am just stupid.
i think it was about 4 years ago i must have installed some piece of freeware that visually marked my hot corners. Example: i forgot about it. over the years it just transfered from one mac to the next via the firewire startup transfer thingy. i grew to thinking it was built into the system. then my girlfriend got a mac and i noticed she was using hot corners but the ANNOYING ICON WASN'T THERE!!! then i remembered that i installed something. DUH! i think i'm screwed because i've searched every mod site i know of and can't find the haxie or the uninstaller. i've searched google, everywhere. i even made finder show invisibles and looked for something myself to no avail. please help!!! [nate] Last edited by nato64 : 2005-09-17 at 02:06. |
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Have you checked Activity Monitor?
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i wouldn't know what should be there or not :-/
i'll keep looking |
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Well, you can't very well to expect us to help you track it down when you won't even try to take the most direct course of action: looking at all the processes that are running.
Seriously! Heck, I'll even start off by pointing you to a list that will immediately eliminate 99% of the processes that you don't recognize: Mac OS X: What Are All Those Processes? In Activity Monitor, switch to the All Processes view. Scroll through the list of processes and mentally mark off the ones that were on the aforementioned page. What's left should be your corner thing! Most likely it'll even have an app icon next to it, making it easier to identify among the faceless system processes. If you're really not sure what's what, just copy the list here and we'll pick it apart for you. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Strange.
I have a hot corner as well, marked by a similar widget. I always thought it was part of Tiger, because that's when it appeared for the first time. |
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i tried looking at that list and there were a lot of stuff that i had running that wasn't on there (besides current apps). i quit any that weren't on the list but nothing happened.
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It could be one of those built-in features that was never officially exposed. Somebody found it and made a utility app that turned it on. Just a guess. If this is the case, you're not going to find a process running, you'll need to find out how to un-set the unexposed setting that's making OS X show that indicator.
Ugh. |
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Have a look over at macosxhints.com, it's the kind of thing they're into.
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i can't find it in there :-/
maybe i should just make myself a new user and transfer everything over - a clean start. |
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I've seen this before... but sadly I cannot remember where. Have you ever used tinker tool are anything from unsanity (haxies)?
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Found it. I win!
Go into your Terminal and enter this command: defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-showcorners -bool false And then: killall Dock It's a built-in feature that, as you guessed, marks the active corners. You probably enabled it with something like TinkerTool or OnyX or one of the other thousand apps that set hidden defaults values. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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I shot the sherrif.
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weird, i looked all over the net and found nothing.
when you make a new user, would there be a way to check the system prefs that exist for a new user vs. the prefs that exist for your user, see if you can find the change. Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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Yay!!!!! Omg thank you so much Brad... you're the man
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well you just had to show me up, huh?
well :P on you. |
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it worked. thank you so much Brad! whats interesting is that i use TinkerTool currently and it doesn't have any option like that. maybe it was a different program. the problem was that it was so long ago it might not be around anymore. i still might make a new user because right now i just created a new user for my filmmaking so that it doesn't have any background processes going and i can just log into that and be efficient as possible. i noticed it worked so much cleaner and nice. so i might just transfer everything over. is that a good idea considering i might have random files around that are 5 years old? |
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Thanks Brad. I've gotten rid of mine as well.
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