https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699911 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699911#c zj jia changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |zjjia@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |tgoettlicher@novell.com |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699911 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699911#c1 L. A. Walsh changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P4 - Low |P2 - High Target Milestone|--- |Factory Severity|Enhancement |Normal --- Comment #1 from L. A. Walsh 2011-06-16 14:14:27 PDT --- You don't seem to understand the impact of this problem. The UI is ****faulty**** That doesn't mean that fixing it is an "enhancement".... Creating a window larger than the screen size is, under almost any circumstance, a **bug**. That this would be done in the system-administration-tools screens is horrible -- people expect such tools to work reliable and all the time -- not be flakey. I didn't question your calling this an enhancement in 11.2, but apparently that just got it ignored. Now it's 11.4 and it is still not fixed. Just because you don't have a 2nd monitor that's turned away from you and is not part of your main desktop, you think this isn't a big deal .... I only have 1 monitor for development -- the other isn't part of my desktop (it's a TV on a wall) that isn't normally visible when my monitor is in front of me) (presuming it is even turned on!). This disables the ability to even FIND the OK/CANCEL buttons -- among other items that are placed on the left part of the window. Why not create a fixed-size for the 'maximum' that's reasonable as a default. And WHY (and this part may be an enhancement), can't yast, when the user has moved and resized the window to a placement of their liking can't yast save it and use it for future windows? But a maximum screen manufactured today is 2560 wide -- 2560x1600 isn't even a STANDARD video mode. In reading NVIDIA's latest driver release notes, release notes ( http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/275.33/275.33-Win7-WinVista-Desktop-Re... ) 1920 is the widest 'widescreen' (2048x1536 exists for old 4:3 style monitors) mode in their list of modes in Appendix A. Nvidia added extra modes to support the Apple, Dell and HP monitors that have 2560x1600 resolution. This means if you 'think' the screen width is > 2560, then the program is getting bogus info. I would suggest using a formula for the 'max' (or use a lesser# if you already are).... 100% of screen size for sizes <1440 & 90% for screen sizes 1920 and larger, with a max screen-size capped at 2560) (meaning max window width =.9*2560 => 2304) But in any event, using a size > than the largest monitor manufactured would seem to be something that 'sanity checking' would catch -- if the x-display says it's larger than 2560, then ignore it and truncate it. Better would be to find the size of the primary display, but that may not be as trivial a fix, but capping the max screen size @ 2560 in your window calculations would go a long way toward ameliorating this problem. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699911 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699911#c3 Thomas Göttlicher changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |suse@tlinx.org --- Comment #3 from Thomas Göttlicher 2011-06-17 12:47:56 UTC --- My machine has two monitors and yast always opens its windows on the correct monitor in a reasonable size. What does "xrandr" on your machine report? And which size are yast's windows on your machine? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699911 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699911#c5 Thomas Göttlicher changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |CLOSED Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #5 from Thomas Göttlicher 2011-06-20 09:21:33 UTC --- You have a very exotic desktop setup that reports YaST an incorrect screen size. In your specific case I'd propose a workaround as follows: 1) open /sbin/yast2 in your favorite text editor as root 2) replace the line $ybindir/y2base $module "$@" "$SELECTED_GUI" $Y2_GEOMETRY $Y2UI_ARGS by $ybindir/y2base $module "$@" "$SELECTED_GUI" -geometry 640x480 $Y2UI_ARGS 3) enjoy small YaST windows with 640x480 pixels :-) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.