No. this persists even when the computer has been restarted. -----Original Message----- From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Hilbert Poehlman Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 1:16 PM To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: mouse acting strangely try pressing command-f5 to turn vo off and then command-f5 to turn it back on again. On Oct 25, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Tasha Raella Chemel wrote: I probably don't know what I'm talking about. I think I heard it say vo cursor on. It is talking in a lower voice, which made me think that I was using a different cursor. (I guess the vo cursor isn't like the jaws cursor?) Alex's low voice persists, even when I deleted my voiceover preferences. I will try repair permissions. -----Original Message----- From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Hilbert Poehlman Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 11:43 AM To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: mouse acting strangely what do you mean when you say the vo cursor is still on? On Oct 25, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Tasha Chemel wrote: Unfortunately, that didn't have an impact. the vo cursor is still on (what's the command to turn it off?) and things are still happening all on their own. launchpad keeps coming up, for example. this is a big problem. On 10/25/11, David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > yeah, press the left and right arrow keys together and see if at least some > of the weirdnes goes away. this is a quick nav toggle. > > On Oct 25, 2011, at 5:56 AM, Tasha Raella Chemel wrote: > > Hi, I have no idea what is going on with my macbook. When I turned it on > yesterday, it started doing things seemingly without any input from me. > Dashboard and the calculator keeps popping UP. VOICEOVER SOMETIMES SAYS > "APPLICATION SPACES." The trackpad commander keeps turning on and off, and > sometimes voiceover mutes itself. I am also stuck in the voiceover cursor > and can't figure out how to turn it off, but I don't think that is what's > causing the problem. It looks like I'm in some weird mode in lion. I went > into keyboard shortcuts and disabled some commands for mission control, but > that didn't fix the problem either. 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