[simonmanda]

I am having a very weird problem. Yesterday a small blue circle appeared on the desktop, it looks like any Aqua button, I can move it around with the mouse, an it even shows some rollover response. But I can not get rid of it. It floats over all applications.






Does anyone know what this is? Do I have a virus? How can I get rid of this thing?

Thank you

[Chuckit]

It's commonly called the Expose Blob. It's a hidden feature that some applications can enable. If you knew which one you used to put it there, you could probably use that to turn it off, but I assume you don't, so we can do it the normal way.

Open the application Terminal in /Applications/Utilities. Copy and paste the following line in and hit return:

defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-floater -bool false

After that, copy and paste this and hit return:

killall Dock

It should then be gone.

[simonmanda]

Well, thankyou ...

A hidden feature that really looks like a bug ...

I suppose "Cocktail" activated this annoying thing. Again Thanks

Originally Posted by Chuckit

It's commonly called the Expose Blob. It's a hidden feature that some applications can enable. If you knew which one you used to put it there, you could probably use that to turn it off, but I assume you don't, so we can do it the normal way.

Open the application Terminal in /Applications/Utilities. Copy and paste the following line in and hit return:

defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-floater -bool false

After that, copy and paste this and hit return:

killall Dock

It should then be gone.

[Chuckit]

Yeah, that's why it's hidden. Glad you got it fixed, anyway. (And yeah, it probably was Cocktail. That's one of the programs that can enable it.)

[MaxPower2k3]

...so what's the point of it?