When the Macbook is idle for 15 minutes the mouse tracks wipe out the screen. I reboot and it is fine until it is idle for 15 minutes or more. Virus?
Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Virus?
No, I don't think so.
Looks more like a problem with the display sleep setting.
In System Preferences>Energy Saver what are the display sleep settings?
Matt
Settings: Computer sleep @ 80 minutes. Display sleep @ 30. What would that have to do with the mouse wiping the screen out?
I wonder which program would turn mouse movement into a broad path. I thought there was a virus in the Microsoft world that used to do that. But, I haven't used a windows PC in years so that is a foggy memory at best.
What would that have to do with the mouse wiping the screen out?
Becuase I have seen it happen before.
In my case the screen should have been black (asleep) but wasn't unitl the mouse move over the updating only those pixels in it's path.
In you case, it could be something else.
As an experiment, you migh try setting dislay sleep to never.
Matt
Look at the bottom of this article to see if these items apply:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4135?viewlocale=en_US
Regards,
Captfred
Captfred,
Thanks for posting this.
It was the combination of an auto logout and display sleep that i was thinking of.
Matt
I think you're right Matt. Auto Logout seems to be the trigger for several versions of this.
🙂
I love that Knowledgebase Article.
No explanation of what's going on (or not going on) just "the login window may not look the way you'd expect after waking the display". You think?
What the article calls "resolution", I call a workaround.
Matt
Yes. Setting back to the defaults solved the problem. Thanks so much for helping to eliminate the irritation.
Thanks. You and Matt are correct. Reset to the defulats and the irritation is gone.
mouse tracks wipe out the screen when MacBook idle for 15 minutes or more
