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Weird Dual Display "Feature"

PPCMLA PowerPC 5 posts Apr 16, 2007 to Apr 19, 2007

#1 Wed, 3 Sep 2014 - 16:44 Jason's Macintosh Museum — #1

I don't know if anyone has posted this link already but here is a real good YouTube channel on old Macs that I am addicted to right now. This guy does a real good job talking about various Macs, including their history, specs etc. For some reason his channel has very low views, but the quality of videos is really high.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCldRG8C0bMMXmGsmoNtHEgQ

PS. I am not Jason

#1 Mon, 16 Apr 2007 - 23:43 PPCMLA

Here's an odd one.

When I awaken my displays after a prolonged period of non-use (the screen saver has long since activated, and Energy Saver turned off the displays), I'm presented with the familiar password challenge.

The unusual part is that I have two pointers!

One appears along the edge of the display that isn't the main display, and the other is on the main screen with the login prompt. It's definitely a bug, and the pointer on the other screen doesn't move when I move the mouse. Only the pointer on the main screen moves. As soon as I move the pointer from the main screen to the other screen, the pointer on the other screen jumps and the two pointers become one right where you would expect it to be.

Odd, eh?

Peace,
Drew

#2 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 - 07:41 PPCMLA

I've noticed that too when the displays go to sleep. A mysterious pointer appears on the edge of the second screen. It's rather odd, but more funny than annoying to me Razz

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#2 Wed, 3 Sep 2014 - 19:12 Jason's Macintosh Museum — #2

Jason actually has an account here.

#3 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 - 09:10 PPCMLA

seems to be normal. it does this on my g4, too.

#3 Thu, 4 Sep 2014 - 14:29 Jason's Macintosh Museum — #3

That is cool. Well congrats on the videos Jason they are really good.

#4 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 - 15:00 PPCMLA

My iBook and MacBook do it, And when you move the "live" cursor over say, a text field so it changes to an I-beam, the dead one changes too.
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#4 Thu, 4 Sep 2014 - 18:27 Jason's Macintosh Museum — #4

They are pretty cool, I watched a few of them. Nice job of breaking down the various models for good peeks inside stuff you don't have.

#5 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 - 16:28 PPCMLA

Does anybody here use Desktop Manager? It's a really handy app to give you multiple desktops in OS X. Anyway, I've found that when you switch from a desktop with an open app to an empty one, and you move the mouse around a bit, the cursor changes just as if it were moving over the window. It's pretty neat seeing hyperlinks appear out of nowhere Razz

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Power Macintosh G4
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Power Macintosh 6500/225

#5 Sun, 7 Sep 2014 - 08:11 Jason's Macintosh Museum — #5

Thanks! I am very pleased that you like my videos. If you can think of how I can improve them, or if you would like me to do a video on a specific model of Mac, please let me know!

Jason.

#6 Tue, 1 Dec 2015 - 02:06 Jason's Macintosh Museum — #6

Just watched most of your videos Jason - quite informative and a super collection you have.

#7 Thu, 3 Dec 2015 - 18:16 Jason's Macintosh Museum — #7

I just watched what I believe is the intro video ...WOW! Nice collection! Great foresight to have started collecting those back in the late 90's when people were literally throwing them away.

#8 Thu, 3 Dec 2015 - 19:08 Jason's Macintosh Museum — #8

I love his intro!

#9 Thu, 3 Dec 2015 - 21:53 Jason's Macintosh Museum — #9

Yeah, Jason's videos are really great. And the intro is perfect. I watched all of them, and was wanting more.

There is also another channel by '65scribe' that I found quite entertaining.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLivN-Ocaet9zfEIRqiIxKz9BT41w4VBFY