Selected text not highlighted

Hi Barney,

Yes, I could run the read command and get back the AppleHighlightColour as "0.780400 0.815700 0.858800" but it didn't take affect until I restarted the Mac.

The normal highlighting is NOW BACK!

Thank you for your help, its much appreciated. I didn't realise that the return from the command

defaults read -g | grep AppleHighlightColor

of

AppleHighlightColor = "1.000000 1.000000 1.000000";

meant the highlight colour was WHITE.

Its clear now. I was selecting text correctly and the Mac was highlighting in white on a white background giving me the impression that its wasn't highlighted at all.

So would the command

defaults write -g AppleHighlightColour "0.780400 0.815700 0.858800"

also have fixed the problem?

Thanks again for your help.

David

>After you set the color with that command, does it stick? i.e. can you run the read command and get >back the changed color or do you get all 1's?

>All 1's is White highlight.

>BTW, -g is NSGlobalDomain

I found a command to change the AppleHighlightColor:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleHighlightColour "0.780400 0.815700 0.858800" resets the parameter to the default Grey.

Thanks Eric, got this:

Hardware Information:

iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011)

iMac - model: iMac12,1

1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4 cores

8 GB RAM

Video Information:

AMD Radeon HD 6750M - VRAM: 512 MB

Startup Items:

HP IO - Path: /Library/StartupItems/HP IO

HP Trap Monitor - Path: /Library/StartupItems/HP Trap Monitor

Jaksta - Path: /Library/StartupItems/Jaksta

System Software:

OS X 10.8.4 (12E55) - Uptime: 0 days 0:15:32

Disk Information:

WDC WD5000AAKS-402AA0 disk0 : (500.11 GB)

disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 478.49 GB (310.87 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB

Untitled (disk0s4) /Volumes/Untitled: 20.76 GB (868.5 MB free)

HL-DT-STDVDRW GA32N

USB Information:

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Western Digital My Passport 0730 1 TB

disk1s1 (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Backup 3 (disk1s2) /Volumes/Backup 3: 999.83 GB (700.32 GB free)

Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Blue Microphones Yeti Stereo Microphone

HP Photosmart C5200 series

Apple Internal Memory Card Reader

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

FireWire Information:

Thunderbolt Information:

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Kernel Extensions:

com.AmbrosiaSW.AudioSupport (4.1.2)

Problem System Launch Daemons:

Problem System Launch Agents:

Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

[loaded] com.adobe.versioncueCS3.plist

[loaded] com.ambrosiasw.ambrosiaaudiosupporthelper.daemon.plist

[loaded] com.barebones.authd.plist

[not loaded] com.dymo.pnpd.plist

[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist

Launch Agents:

[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist

[loaded] com.adobe.CS4ServiceManager.plist

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist

User Launch Agents:

[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist

[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae.plist

[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.925793fb327152fd34795896fa1fb9ffa268b2a852256fe56609efa3.plist

[not loaded] com.nchsoftware.expressinvoice.agent.plist

[loaded] ws.agile.1PasswordAgent.plist

User Login Items:

SpeechSynthesisServer

Skype

Jumpcut

Mail

Dropbox

HP Scheduler

3rd Party Preference Panes:

Adobe Version Cue CS3

AirServer

Flash Player

Flip4Mac WMV

Growl

Internet Plug-ins:

AdobePDFViewer.plugin

AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin

DYMO NPAPI Addin.plugin

DYMO Safari Addin.plugin

Flash Player.plugin

FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin

Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin

iPhotoPhotocast.plugin

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

NP2020Player.plugin

NP_2020Player_IKEA.plugin

QuickTime Plugin.plugin

SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin

Silverlight.plugin

User Internet Plug-ins:

CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin.plugin

RealPlayer Plugin.plugin

Bad Fonts:

None

Top Processes by CPU:

1% WindowServer

1% EtreCheck

1% Skype

1% fontd

0% Microsoft Word

0% coreservicesd

0% hidd

0% syncdefaultsd

0% imagent

Top Processes by Memory:

172 MB WebProcess

147 MB Skype

123 MB Safari

106 MB Mail

98 MB Microsoft Word

90 MB mds

90 MB Dropbox

74 MB WindowServer

66 MB Dock

41 MB coreservicesd

Virtual Memory Statistics

5.25 GB Free RAM

1.67 GB Active RAM

212 MB Inactive RAM

881 MB Wired RAM

357 MB Page-ins

0 B Page-outs

Just to remind you Barney the highlight seems OK as long as the app is not front most.

See https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4198612/PreviewScreenShot002.png

Note: I copied the URL from an earlier post. When selected it wasnt highlighted but when pasted the text (above) was highlighted in blue (can't see it against the blue background of the forum).

David

Hi Barney,

I found a command to change the AppleHighlightColor:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleHighlightColour "0.780400 0.815700 0.858800" resets the parameter to the default Grey.

I've done this but the problem still remains. I can see highlighted text in all windows except the frontmost. With several documents in several applications open, each with highlighted text and with windows arranged to see all on screen, only the frontmost window fails to show the highlighted text. As each window is brought to the front in turn the previously highlighted text becomes un-highighted.

Regards

David

Still trying to resolve this highlight problem I logged onto my iMac as a different user. The highlighting worked correctly. Is there a prefs file I should delete?

Regards

David

Thanks Barney,

The problem doesn't exist for new accounts or in safe mode. But does exist with my normal users account.

Regards

David

Thanks Barney,

Tried both but the problem is still there.

Regards

David