{"id":197,"date":"2006-09-29T17:52:58","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T00:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/197\/1048-persistent-cursor-rectangle"},"modified":"2006-09-29T17:59:18","modified_gmt":"2006-09-30T00:59:18","slug":"1048-persistent-cursor-rectangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/197\/1048-persistent-cursor-rectangle","title":{"rendered":"10.4.8 Persistent Cursor Rectangle"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just installed 10.4.8, after asking all of my friends within shouting or typing distance whether “it was safe,” or not. No objections, so I pulled the trigger and rebooted. When I logged in again I was confused to find a black rectangle surrounding my cursor. It looked familiar, but I couldn’t quite place it:<\/p>\n

\n\n<\/p>\n

\nThis damned thing follows me everywhere. And if I wasn’t a damned smart fella, I’d probably be stuck with it or on the phone with Apple, trying to figure it out. But I recognized it from somewhere, and was pretty sure it had something to do with accessibility. What was that I read on Daring Fireball about the new zoom feature<\/a>? Oh yeah, that’s cool, the scroll wheel can zoom in on the screen if you hold down the control key. Nifty, but I guess it means that zoom is technically “on” even if zoom isn’t technically “on”:\n<\/p>\n

\n\n<\/p>\n

\nUmm. Oops. All of our preferences are not in agreement. But at least my handy dandy “zoom preview” rectangle is permanently attached to the cursor! I might zoom … at any moment, and I certainly want to know what it is I’m going to zoom!\n<\/p>\n

\n\n<\/p>\n

\nApparently if you ever turned zoom on, and decided to enable that preview rectangle feature, it will now be visible all the time. I can’t help but wonder if this “scroll wheel zoom” feature somehow snuck into 10.4.8 accidentally. This is just dumb.\n<\/p>\n

\nSo … if you googled your way here after installing 10.4.8, and want to lose the damn rectangle. Let me review:\n<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Open System Preferences<\/li>\n
  2. Go to Universal Access pane.<\/li>\n
  3. Switch to the “Seeing” tab.<\/li>\n
  4. Click the “Options” button for the Zoom section.<\/li>\n
  5. Turn off the “Show preview rectangle” checkbox.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \nHere’s hoping the rest of the release got more testing than this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I just installed 10.4.8, after asking all of my friends within shouting or typing distance whether “it was safe,” or not. No objections, so I pulled the trigger and rebooted. When I logged in again I was confused to find a black rectangle surrounding my cursor. It looked familiar, but I couldn’t quite place it: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-usability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}