get rid of the dotted line/selection box

Samfau2 · 24 Nov 2008 at 19:04

You know the dotted box around links/buttons/icons etc. It looks pretty ugly.

It usually comes up when you press the arrow keys and move a selection box around.

Any way to get rid of it from vista? and in apps e.g. firefox, thunderbird

Few examples:

asim18 · 24 Nov 2008 at 19:14

I just click on the taskbar and it goes away.

Samfau2 · 24 Nov 2008 at 19:20

yeah i do too, but it still irritates me when it comes up. Especially on confirmation buttons etc, like now i am about to click post quick reply and up comes the ugly little dotted biatch

Hudzy · 24 Nov 2008 at 19:53

Pet hate of mine too that.

Samfau2 · 25 Nov 2008 at 00:08

so i take it im stuck with it? No miracle fix?

yantorsen · 25 Nov 2008 at 00:19

I don't seem to get it at all

alex24 · 25 Nov 2008 at 00:24

I don't get that either. Have you tried resetting all the visual styles/customation?

Samfau2 · 25 Nov 2008 at 00:36

I found that it doesn't appear in IE, but does with firefox, for example if i click the ocuk logo at the top left of this page a dotted rectangle will appear around the image, but in IE i doesn't. Ill have a look in the config and google it to see if there is a fix or addon for firefox, thats where it annoys me most really.

muon · 25 Nov 2008 at 01:01

Samfau2 · 25 Nov 2008 at 01:06

got rid of in in firefox by setting browser.display.focus_ring_width to 0 in about:config. Doubt itll be that easy to do in explorer tho

asim18 · 25 Nov 2008 at 01:28

yantorsen said:
I don't seem to get it at all

Never?

Try clicking on a desktop icon, then use the keyboard arrows to navigate the icons. Does it still not come up?

yantorsen · 25 Nov 2008 at 01:50

asim18 said:
Never?

Try clicking on a desktop icon, then use the keyboard arrows to navigate the icons. Does it still not come up?

I don't have any desktop icons, but it doesn't come up when I do that with files in another folder.

bledd · 25 Nov 2008 at 09:54

i get it, but never found it annoying tbh

Samfau2 · 25 Nov 2008 at 14:03

mm i never did, but once i notice something like that and think "thats not v.nice" it bugs me until i get rid of it, and especially as vista is all glossy and fancy it kinda spoils it. I found a really easy fix for vista, but its only for 32 bit :mad: