awful hand pointer in safari !

Once again, go find another Browser and Email client. There is nothing else that can help you. None of us are bothered by the hand, nor does ours behave erratically. The cursor changes all the time indicating the different types of content, Text, Hyperlinks, Buttons, Drag zones, etc. Based on your ramblings, you have something wrong with your OS that is causing the cursor to change when it is not supposed to. We've tried to help you solve that problem, but that's about as far as we can go. Neither I, nor any other user on this forum can reprogram the OS in any manner. There really isn't any helping you, further.

Yes, I know the meaning of the word distortion. What made no sense, at all, was how you were using it.

For the rest of your currently last post, an utter waste of your time typing any of it, or even thinking about it. Windows, OS X, Linux, name any OS with a GUI interface. They all change the mouse pointer based on the possible action you could use relative to the cursor's current position. Complaining here won't change that.

Given that this has been a basic design of the GUI OS for over two decades (closer to three, now), you really only have two choices.

1) Stop complaining about it.

2) Stop using computers with a GUI interface and use command line text only. Better get used to that blinking cursor line, though.

That ain't distortion! This is distortion! and if you're in a rock band YOU WANT DISTORTION!

I think I finally realized the word he's looking for is distraction, not distortion.

Been a while since I've owned an electro-harmonix pedal. 🙂

Minibidule wrote:

Thank you for your help. But could you please quit this awful habit some people developed on forums which is to say "us" anytime they speak?

Us is the entire ASC users who do not work for Apple. You want something reprogrammed on your Mac and us users cannot do anything about it. Us is perfectly descriptive and in no way implies 'shunning' of newcomers. You to are included in this Us as you cannot reprogram the Mac, either.

If you wish to talk to Apple and have them reprogram the hand pointer, you'll have to actually talk to them. Now there's "us" and "them."

Could someone help me with this ? Do I have to post the finder's problem in another topic?

You have a problem in the Finder, also? Does it have to do with the cursor, also?

It works properly for me (and undoubtedly for millions of others). The big question is, why it ain't working right for you. 🙂

Earlier you wrote that you didn't check Safe Mode? Why not?

while you're in the Finder, press command-shift-H, then command-J.

Minibidule wrote:

I'm still convinced someone could land here any minute and find a solution. That's the difference btwn an open, public discussion space and a small private.. cave, let's say. There is no us. Or there is us, period. I would even include the developers in the us (who are not omniscient gods).

No, actually, there isn't anybody who will land here that can help you.

You want the Hand cursor to go away completely which requires that Apple change the OS for you, personally.

If you wish to hack the OS, find the hand cursor in the resources and change it to something else.

I suppose someone might show up and explain how to hack the OS, but Apple generally frowns upon that and would likely delete the post. You might try finding an open, public discussion space to determine how to do that.

The screenshot from Monday shows the view options for your "Computer" Finder window in Column view and the Saturday one shows the options for the same window in List view.

Minibidule wrote:

Yes there's something strange also with the finder. When indicating where I should locate the style sheet, balsa 2 wanted me to find the hidden library file in my user's file. I try to do it the usual way (view preferences show hidden files or as balsa 2 metnionned "show library folder" )but I couldn't for lack of this option in the view preferences.

The only way I could reach it was through "go to" (which proves it exists that's something).

I'm really tired of these problems. I hope someone will have an idea about how I could get rid of them.

There is nothing wrong with your Finder. You just weren't selecting the Home folder when looking at the View Options.

I would even give you some more facts to grumble about : the only way I could get the "complete" view preferences window is when I do cmd+alt (or ctrl, I don't know)+ H and then, and only then cmd+J. Otherwise I still have the incomplete one. And safari 's still crashing.

It's cmd-shift-H, but irrelevant.

The reason it works is because that opens the Home folder without selecting any subfolders. The home folder is the focus, so it's view options are selected when you use cmd-j.

We have no way of seeing what you actually have opened when you Show View Options.

In your screen shot above, you have the Computer open, not your Home.

In the case of the two different results, they are different because different views have different View Options.

In List View, you can select the columns to see. In Icon View, you can choose the window background color, set grid spacing and icon size, etc. If you Show View Options, then change the View (without closing the View Options sheet), you'll see the options change.