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Stubborn Mac Menu Bar Item

razorfrog — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:18:53 -0800

MacFilter: Help me remove a mystery menu bar item I have a blank spot in my menu bar that when clicked, opens up a shaded blue window top on my screen. Goes away when you click elsewhere. It doesn't do anything else, no right click options and no way to close it that I can find. Nothing weird listed in startup items for my account, and I'm stumped to try to figure it out. Any ways to find out what it is? Or force remove it (tried command-dragging).

Here's an image of the menu bar
And one of the window

Thanks!

Mac OSX: I need an app or some way that allow me to display the clock +3 hours.

Leech — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:57:18 -0800

I live in Argentina, and I'm working on an app that requires to use the time of a city in the US otherwise it doesn't compiles (NDA related, I think). So I've changed my macbook hour to that city timezone, and hidden the mac clock to only show the clock in analog (so I don't see this much). I need an app or some way that allow me to display the clock +3 hours.

Help! My Leopard is changing its spots!

annabellee — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:12:35 -0800

My iBook G4 is possessed! Please help perform an exorcism. Suddenly many things are wrong with my iBook G4 running Leopard. There is a white box over the right-hand side of my menubar, and Spotlight, Airport, clock, and all my startup items (Quicksilver, WeatherDock, MenuCalendarClock) are gone.

I can't open many applications that might help (including Disk Utility, Finder Help, System Preferences). I cannot open Mail, but I am indeed online as I can open Firefox and Fetch and use them. I tried inserting the Leopard Disk and reinstalling, but I can't run the install program. I repaired permissions in single user mode (startup with Command-S, run fsck) and my hard drive seems to be fine.

I plugged in my backup drive and tried to restore from Time Machine. I get the Time Machine interface, but I can't click on any past backup windows.

When I place the mouse cursor over the white rectangle on the menubar, I get the beach ball. I am unable to shut down or logout without doing a hard restart. I can't get to System Preferences to create a new user to see if it's particular to my login.

Please help. I know Leopard requires more memory than I have, but I have been running it since release with next to no problems.

Help me put my icon in the menubar!

Alterscape — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:23:21 -0800

I want the Java application I'm writing to put an icon in the menu bar (next to the system clock, airport status icon, iChat icon, battery icon, etc), a la Quicksilver and Gmail Notifier, but I have no idea how. Help! I've been googling all afternoon, but the only information I can find relates to a plist entry that directs OS X to place the top-level jframe's menu in the OS X menu bar. While that's nifty, I need the ability to put an icon up there, and not in the dock. Quicksilver's preferences pane calls this a "menu bar icon," but I can't find anything useful in Google with that name. Is there a more proper name for this behavior, and can I achieve it with a Java app?