A stupid problem concerning the desktop...

[sepr8r]

Not familiar with the mac at all, as this post will demonstrate

My daughter did something our Mac. On the desktop, the background is now expanded and when you move the cursor, it navigates by an annoying combination moving the cursor and moving the background until an icon is under the arrow. I screwed around with the display and some other preferences, but i cant figure out which setting I need to modify to get it back to a static background (of normal size) and a cursor that moves to an icon.

 

[BlueRevolution]

Hold the control key and move the scroll wheel on the mouse down.

 

[Queso]

Alt (Option on some keyboards) + CMD + the minus key (-)

You're zoomed in.

Hold the control key and move the scroll wheel on the mouse down.

Or that, which does the same thing 🙂

 

[sepr8r]

Thanks

that fixed it

 

[balamw]

At least she didn't happen to hit Control-Option-Command-8 (hold all three modifiers and then 8). Same keys to go back.

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