[opensuse] KDE window problems with a mini-laptop (hp2133)
Dear Listmates, After a traumatic experience of installing suse 11.1 on hp2133 mini-laptop (chrome graphics driver (www.openchrome.org) had to be installed from source, broadcomm STA driver had to be used: (http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Network_Adapters_(Wireless)/Broadcom_BCM43xx)), I am still suffering from the following weird problem: Some of the programs in KDE, for example KpowerSave and Amarok (or even the panel configuration) have configuration windows that are so big that they don't fit on my screen! .. It is very annoying, as the "OK" button to save changes is beyond reach. The screen is the mini-laptop screen ("wxsvga" or how it is called..?). Does anyone have a clue how to fix this?? Cheers, Sampsa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Sampsa Riikonen <sampsa.riikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
Dear Listmates,
After a traumatic experience of installing suse 11.1 on hp2133 mini-laptop (chrome graphics driver (www.openchrome.org) had to be installed from source, broadcomm STA driver had to be used: (http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Network_Adapters_(Wireless)/Broadcom_BCM43xx)), I am still suffering from the following weird problem:
Some of the programs in KDE, for example KpowerSave and Amarok (or even the panel configuration) have configuration windows that are so big that they don't fit on my screen! .. It is very annoying, as the "OK" button to save changes is beyond reach. The screen is the mini-laptop screen ("wxsvga" or how it is called..?).
Does anyone have a clue how to fix this??
Cheers,
Sampsa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Interesting... Does your whole desktop fit on the screen? Run: xwininfo and click the cursor on the background to find out what the X-Display manager thinks your resolution is. If it exceeds the hardware resolution then tht is the issue to address first. Boris. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Yes, the same happens on the Aspire One. You must click on "Panel options" - "Panel preferences" and in "More options", "Visibility", switch the setting "always visible" to "Windows can cover". -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 14 February 2009 04:14:20 pm Alfredo Amaya wrote:
Yes, the same happens on the Aspire One. You must click on "Panel options" - "Panel preferences" and in "More options", "Visibility", switch the setting "always visible" to "Windows can cover".
.. in addition to that I had to change the KDE font-size to a smaller value. With 5 points, the "OK", "Apply" and "Cancel" buttons are visible, and with 6 points you can guess what is going on. ;) Cheers, Sampsa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 14 February 2009 04:01:36 pm you wrote:
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Sampsa Riikonen <sampsa.riikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
Dear Listmates,
After a traumatic experience of installing suse 11.1 on hp2133 mini-laptop (chrome graphics driver (www.openchrome.org) had to be installed from source, broadcomm STA driver had to be used: (http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Network_Adapters_(Wireless)/Broadcom_BCM43xx) ), I am still suffering from the following weird problem:
Some of the programs in KDE, for example KpowerSave and Amarok (or even the panel configuration) have configuration windows that are so big that they don't fit on my screen! .. It is very annoying, as the "OK" button to save changes is beyond reach. The screen is the mini-laptop screen ("wxsvga" or how it is called..?).
Does anyone have a clue how to fix this??
Cheers,
Sampsa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Interesting... Does your whole desktop fit on the screen?
Run: xwininfo
and click the cursor on the background to find out what the X-Display manager thinks your resolution is. If it exceeds the hardware resolution then tht is the issue to address first.
Boris.
The resolution is 1024x600, which is OK. I put the panel into the right and as a column, but the panel itself does not seem to be the issue! The windows simply go out of the bounds of the screen and the "OK" button is hidden somewhere below. :/ Happend only with the configuration windows which have a fixed height. Btw Alfredo, what is the resolution of the screen of your mini laptop? Cheers, Sampsa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Some of the programs in KDE, for example KpowerSave and Amarok (or even the panel configuration) have configuration windows that are so big that they don't fit on my screen! .. It is very annoying, as the "OK" button to save changes is beyond reach. The screen is the mini-laptop screen ("wxsvga" or how it is called..?).
What version of KDE is it ? Jay -- Registered Linux User # 483705 @ http://counter.li.org/ (openSUSE 11.1, i686) Smolts Profile: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/?uuid=pub_b541a450-9bc1-45fd-beab-d46ee43a... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 14 February 2009 13:29:55 Sampsa Riikonen wrote:
Some of the programs in KDE, for example KpowerSave and Amarok (or even the panel configuration) have configuration windows that are so big that they don't fit on my screen! .. It is very annoying, as the "OK" button to save changes is beyond reach. The screen is the mini-laptop screen ("wxsvga" or how it is called..?).
The dialogs are just too flaming big. The workaround is to use alt+drag on a window to move it so you can get at all the parts, or setup a large virtual desktop that you can scroll by mousing to the edge (which I haven't tried for years...). Unfortunately the only fix is to go through them with Qt Designer and make them smaller again, by rearranging things in the dialogs, adding tabs, or hiding things in Advanced extensions. This is an excellent way to get started with Qt/KDE development. I've been prodding people to work on this in kdepim and on kopete, but there are a lot of dialogs to fix. FWIW it's not just KDE apps which have oversized dialogs... Will
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Alfredo Amaya -
Boris Epstein -
Jay Mistry -
Sampsa Riikonen -
Will Stephenson