On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:36 AM, David <dgboles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/26/2009 10:30 AM, Fulko Hew wrote: >> Forgive the rant that follows... >> >> This isn't F12 specific. As a matter of fact, I was just trying to do some >> 'packaging' development and SELinux on F11 when it bit me. F12 and >> its apps have the same issues, and its not even Fedora specific. >> Now don't ask why I was doing it, its not relevant, but... >> >> While doing my work, I'm using a virtual machine, (VirtualBox right now) >> and it presents a nice window for Fedora to present itself into. >> The trouble is that VirtualBox's display is not a very high resolution window. >> Thats OK, I can live with that. The problem comes when there are >> applications that throw up windows that are of fixed size, and don't >> have scroll bars! >> >> For example, system-config-selinux. Using a limited resolution screen >> the policy generation tool draws a window thats wider than the screen. >> And unfortunately that places options and button on the window past >> its right hand boundary. > > > Three related questions: > > 1) Have you installed the GuestAdditions? Nope, but I have now, and I'll look into it. > 2) Have you switched to the fullscreen display mode? Nope, but I see in the documentation that there is a way to reconfig the OS to take advantage of 'full screen mode'. (Just going into full screen mode isn't enough.) > 3) Did you actually read the instructions? :-) As an co-worker said ~25 years ago: "If you have to read the book... its too damn complicated.". I've used that as a design guideline ever since, along with: "If you have to ask me a question... I didn't do my job right." ... snip ... But in the end, my rant isn't with VirtualBox, its with the application developers. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
