Q: Weird font problem and menu bar icons glitch
This started yesterday out of the blue. All the icons (all but the dropbox, chrome and spotlight icons) on my menu bar dissapeared leaving a huge blank space. Every 5-10 seconds they would reappear for a split second and disappear again. This was going on constantly no matter what I did.
I reset the PRAM, SMC, repaired disk permissions, ran ONYX and deleted every cache I could and checked a bunch of forums looking for answers. Finally what worked was deleting the "com.apple.systemuiserver.plist" file. This finally helped with the menu bar problem, its not glitching anymore. Any thoughts on why this happened? and why it happened so randomly? I just restarted my computer yesterday and the glitch was there. BTW, I use iStat Menus, and after deleting the mentioned file, I had to delete iStat Menus and re install too .
But I found another weird issue, that I noticed before but didn't really pay attention, i just thought it was a random mistake. In Messages, the font is missing, also missing on Mail randomly and in some websites. Please see attached images to better understand what I'm talking about. I think this is connected to the menu bar problem, as this problem started pretty much at the same time. I get this stroke only text randomly.
* This is from a website. I'm using google chrome...
* This is from Messages. Every message looks like this now.
* and this is from Mail. Same stroked text problem.
Any thoughts on how to resolve this? I would REALLY like to avoid doing a fresh install of OSX. There's just too much for me to re-install as far as apps and programs go and I am working on a project for a client. This was happening even before I deleted the file I deleted and all the cache and stuff so I don't think it's linked to that.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Posted on Aug 15, 2015 12:36 PM





