How do I undo what our cat has done?
RHF
Since then the display is the negative of what it should be. That is
blacks are white, whites are black, and the colors are their
complements (blues are yellow, etc.). We are running OS 10.4.4 on a
external firewire drive. I can't find a command that inverts things
like this. Rebooting did not help. Short of doing a clean install is
there something I can do? Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Garner Miller
<rhf...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Returned today to find the cat warming herself on the Pismo Powerbook.
> Since then the display is the negative of what it should be. That is
> blacks are white, whites are black, and the colors are their
> complements (blues are yellow, etc.).
Don't worry, she didn't fry anything.
There's an option to turn the display negative to help people with
eyesight problems. There's a key combination to turn it on, which the
cat must have hit.
Try hitting it again: Command-Option-Control-8. (It's also in the
Universal Access preference pane.)
Does that help?
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Garner R. Miller
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Gnarlodious
> Try hitting it again: Command-Option-Control-8.
Smart cat! Most humans can't even figure it out.
Can't say that I blame the feline for napping on the laptop, mine is toasty
warm in winter.
-- Gnarlie
RHF
spent much of an evening searching through Mac Help and online forums
to no avail. I remembered that there was some keystroke combination on
my old Apple IIe that inverted things so I figured there must be one
for a Mac. As a side benefit I can appreciate at my age that it
sometimes is easier to read small text white on black. Best regards
and thanks again.
R. Frist, Pittsburgh, PA
Garner Miller
<rhf...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Many thanks to Garner and Gnarlie. How do you learn of such things?
I ran across it by accident a while back while I was fooling around
with the various System Preferences to see what they did. I thought
the "negative" effect was really neat-looking, which is why it stuck
out in my mind. As soon as you mentioned the colors being reversed, I
knew exactly what had happened.
So the short answer to your question is, "dumb luck." :-)
Glad it's working again for you!
H.B. Elkins
At least your cat's effects were undoable. Mine peed on my iBook, resulting in a
logic board failure. :-(
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Brian Hughes
H.B. Elkins <hbel...@mis.net.restrictorplate> wrote:
> At least your cat's effects were undoable. Mine peed on my iBook, resulting
> in a logic board failure. :-(
You were probably spending too much time with your iBook, at least in
your cat's opinion. I have 4 cats, they all get jealous and show it in
various ways. I yet to have one mark my computer though.
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Cathy Stevenson
A useful thing to have is a complete list of Mac KB shortcuts:
http://davespicks.com/writing/programming/mackeys.html
Cathy
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