On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 14:34 -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:56:40 -0600 > > > > THE REMAINING MINOR ISSUE > > For some reason, the upper left two-thirds of the desktop background is darker > > than the rest of the desktop background. It's easier to show than to explain > > how it looks, so anyone interested can view it here: > > > > http://www.melvilletheatre.com/1920x1024screenshot.png > > Looks to me as if a 1024x768 rendering of the background image is > being layered on top of a rendering of the same image that has been > scaled up to 1920x1024. Have you checked whether you can actually > place icons on the lower and right parts of the screen? I'm > speculating that the desktop manager is still operating at 1024x768 > even though the X screen is larger. I quite recently had something that looked quite similar on my iMac g5 when I had a cable plugged in to the VGA port. he system apparently overlaid the VGA screen over the screen on the built in LCD. Does the OP have a second monitor attached to he system?