Strange Mac behaviour

This is off-topic, but I know there's some clever people out there, so I hope somebody can help.

After many years on PCs, I've just got a job on a Mac. So far so good, until a couple of hours ago. I don't know what happened, but now every dialog box has a visible black box around the focused button:

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Never noticed this, but Yahoo found this: "Shift-Cmd-Q = Log out, Shift-Opt-Cmd-Q = Log out immediately" So that's half of it...

Also: here
Looks like you also've got a 'Restart" and "shutdown" with and without dialog box.

No Idea how you got it though. Changed any settings recently? Maybe something to do with Universal Access?


Edit: Found two things: http://swik.net/User:a​lex+osx and http://www.zeldman.com​/2006/10/05/black-box/

You, sir, are a genius, and a saviour. I found the VoiceOver panel, and turned it off - no more black boxes. I'm still not sure how it got turned on ... I guess my clumsy PC-fingers pressed something they shouldn't have.

There's still two of me in the Apple menu, but meh ... it's no biggie.

Thanks again!

Damo77 wrote in post #4309636
I'm still not sure how it got turned on ... I guess my clumsy PC-fingers pressed something they shouldn't have.

Nah, it's not your fingers. It's your Mac. It knows you're a recovering PC user and is just teasing you a bit.

Go to System preferences, and turn off all Keyboard Shortcuts (In keyboard and mouse) you don't need / want.

Some of them otherwise will interfere with photoshop as well. For instance Cmd-Opt-D will bring up the dock instead of feather in PS...
On my Mac, the screenshots is all that's not (partially) switched off

Once again, you're a gem. I found out it was Cmd-F5 (supposed to save a Clipping Path in my PS actions) that was turning on the VoiceOver panel.

I'll do what you suggest, and kill some of the OS shortcuts.