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Gerry
Jun 29, 2012, 1:31:08 PM6/29/12
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Today my Dashboard apps are not accepting mouse clicks, though I can
click on them and move them around with the mouse, but clicking in an
entry field (Dictionary) or clicking on the Calculator buttons doesn't
work either.
Anyone have this happen, if so, how do I solve this problem?
click on them and move them around with the mouse, but clicking in an
entry field (Dictionary) or clicking on the Calculator buttons doesn't
work either.
Anyone have this happen, if so, how do I solve this problem?
Gerry
Jun 29, 2012, 1:41:17 PM6/29/12
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In article <once-2C6F57.1...@news.eternal-september.org>,
Follow up to my post, I rebooted my iMac running OS 10.7.4 and now all
my Dashboard apps are back working as they should. So I've solved the
problem, but would like to know what might have caused the problem.
my Dashboard apps are back working as they should. So I've solved the
problem, but would like to know what might have caused the problem.
Jolly Roger
Jun 29, 2012, 1:53:01 PM6/29/12
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In article <once-855C3B.1...@news.eternal-september.org>,
I would guess one of the widgets you have installed / running is causing
a problem.
You can just kill the Dock to restart Dashboard, rather than restarting
the whole system.
You can kill the Dock a couple different ways. Two that come immediately
to mind:
* Execute this command in a terminal window: killall Dock
* Run /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor, and quit it from there.
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a problem.
You can just kill the Dock to restart Dashboard, rather than restarting
the whole system.
You can kill the Dock a couple different ways. Two that come immediately
to mind:
* Execute this command in a terminal window: killall Dock
* Run /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor, and quit it from there.
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Király
Jun 29, 2012, 2:34:06 PM6/29/12
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Jolly Roger <jolly...@pobox.com> wrote:
> You can just kill the Dock to restart Dashboard, rather than restarting
> the whole system.
>
> You can kill the Dock a couple different ways. Two that come immediately
> to mind:
>
> * Execute this command in a terminal window: killall Dock
>
> * Run /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor, and quit it from there.
Logging out and logging back in will do it too, and muh faster than
> You can just kill the Dock to restart Dashboard, rather than restarting
> the whole system.
>
> You can kill the Dock a couple different ways. Two that come immediately
> to mind:
>
> * Execute this command in a terminal window: killall Dock
>
> * Run /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor, and quit it from there.
rebooting.
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Gerry
Jun 29, 2012, 2:39:01 PM6/29/12
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In article <vilain-9484FC....@news.individual.net>,
> Something stopped the mouse events from being sent to the Dashboard.
> Just what and why was lost when you rebooted. Since you may not have
> the debugging skills to dig into MacOS nor would you likely be running a
> debugging version of the kernel, that's really the only solution open to
> you.
>
> If it keeps happening, I'd switch to another mouse. I had one MacAlly
> mouse die after about 2 years, a lot better than the Magic Mouse which
> lasted 6 months at best.
The mouse was actually working in Dashboard, I could click on anyone of
the my widgets and move them around the screen, the mouse click didn't
work within any of the fields or buttons of the widgets.
Michael Vilain <vil...@NOspamcop.net> wrote:
> In article <once-855C3B.1...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> Gerry <on...@around-the-block.org> wrote:
>
> In article <once-855C3B.1...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> Gerry <on...@around-the-block.org> wrote:
>
> Just what and why was lost when you rebooted. Since you may not have
> the debugging skills to dig into MacOS nor would you likely be running a
> debugging version of the kernel, that's really the only solution open to
> you.
>
> If it keeps happening, I'd switch to another mouse. I had one MacAlly
> mouse die after about 2 years, a lot better than the Magic Mouse which
> lasted 6 months at best.
The mouse was actually working in Dashboard, I could click on anyone of
the my widgets and move them around the screen, the mouse click didn't
work within any of the fields or buttons of the widgets.
Barry Margolin
Jun 29, 2012, 6:10:49 PM6/29/12
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In article <once-051D27.1...@news.eternal-september.org>,
I think this happened to me once. The best I could figure out was that
one of the widgets had grabbed mouse focus and then got stuck in a loop.
Restarting Dashboard, by killing the Dock, cleared it up.
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one of the widgets had grabbed mouse focus and then got stuck in a loop.
Restarting Dashboard, by killing the Dock, cleared it up.
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Barry Margolin, bar...@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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