On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:17:25 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 14:58 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> Now that I know the trick of dragging with the left Alt key down, I can >> usually do *something* with gpk -- but it sure would make life a lot >> easier to have the window fit the monitor. > > There's a few things you can try to make windows smaller: Pick a > smaller font. Find an option for whether GUI buttons will be drawn as > text/icon/text+icon and make them text-only. Hmmm ... I haven't found that yet, but I did find Screen Resolution under Main Menu > System > Preferences > Hardware -- and oddly enough it doesn't agree with system-config-display. It says 800x480 now, and s-c-d Settings tab doesn't even offer that. It does have a button for Detect Displays, which I clicked, and another for Apply, which I also clicked; nothing changed. Hmmm ... Considering the effects on terminals and browsers (both of which require my ancient eyeballs to compromise between legibility and screen size), that makes a lot of sense. But I don't see any setting for fonts on the gpk window; so I suppose that means changing fonts in some other place that will affect it and maybe more. Where?? > Or you can try making the desktop bigger than the screen resolution, > with a keyhole view of the whole thing, so that you can scroll past the > edge and move the keyhole around. It is rather like trying to read a > magazine through a keyhole, and not something you'd want to do all the > time, but useful to be able to switch modes to deal with one or two > programs which want big GUIs. Double hmmm ... I don't think I quite follow. It sounds to me as if you were describing what I do now, with your very apt keyhole analogy; but somehow I don't believe you are. Are you suggesting that I run system-config-display up to its highest offering on the settings tab, which would be 720x400?? Or that I go to the hardware tab, switch it from "generic crt" (where it is now, God knows why) to "generic lcd," and then run that way up somewhere -- like 1024x768?? Or some third thing?? Edit xorg.conf, maybe??? > I've come across one or two things that were two tall for my 800 pixel > high laptop screen. That's rather poor design on their behalf, it's a > common enough screen height. I don't understand why none of the usual resizing methods work; what is the actual resolution of an early EeePC, anyway? Is it way different from the 640x350 that F9 seems in one place to think it is? >From the 800x480 which (schizoid?) F9 seems in another place to think? Both?? (If it can mistake what I have for a crt, it can confuse anything.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 7, 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
