Bug 20117: new rc2 sets a backdrop, and preferences for same

[J. Landman Gay]

Don't know if it helps, but I didn't see this behavior. I frequently turn 
on the backdrop when screen sharing and turn it off later. I wonder if the 
problem only occurs if there is no preference set yet?

Mac OS X El Capitan.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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On July 18, 2017 11:12:23 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> On 07/18/2017 08:55 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote:
>>
>>> On 19 Jul 2017, at 1:42 pm, Mark Wieder via use-livecode 
>>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yep. LiveCode (any version) is now completely unusable for me.
>>
>> Completely unusable might be overstating things a touch don’t you think? 
>> There is a menu to remove the backdrop (View > Backdrop). Looking at the PR 
>> it was meant to only set the backdrop if users were still in the first run 
>> mode of the start center. We will need to investigate why it has impacted 
>> others.
>
> Nothing but a backdrop. Takes over the screen. Everything else is hidden
> behind the gray featureless backdrop. I had to alt-tab to a terminal
> window (what if I didn't have one already running?) in order to kill -9
> livecode.
>
> And that means that there's no way to access the menu to undo the
> damage. I had to remove my preferences files (which incidentally grew by
> a couple of orders of magnitude) and recreate them.
>
> No. I don't think that's overstating things *a touch*
>
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