Dear Bruce,
You know what...?
There are some times in which life could be much more simple if one
would be a little bit more persevering...
- I did try to move the window to see the bottom of it (it was
actually my first trial, even before contacting you). But the OK
button was not there.
- I did try to reduce by 1pt all the fonts so that the window was just
at the border of my screen. But the OK button was still not there.
- After your email, I tried to reduce the fonts by 2pts which gives me
a tiny tiny window, but ... with an OK button at the bottom!
Sorry about all this story for a problem of window and font size, but
I really thought that I made all things possible from my side.
Thanks a LOT for your help!
Claire
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Bruce Ravel
On Monday 19 July 2010 03:24:06 am Claire Gervais wrote:
Thanks for your help, I indeed tried what you have suggested but unfortunately without success.
Otherwise, I have tried to update ubuntu (to version 10.04 Lucid), but it didn't help. I have also tried to install it on another 64bit computer and it worked without any problem. So could it come from the graphic card...?
I feel stuck for the moment, and any new idea is welcome!
Claire,
From the screenshots you sent last week, it does not seem that anything unexpectedly wrong is happening. You are certainly suffering from the inelegant screen management in Athena -- a problem I have discussed many times on the mailing list and which is the root cause for the problem discussed in Q13 at http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/FAQ/HoraeQuestions.
I am guessing that you are using a rather small laptop with a 16:9 aspect ratio -- that is wide and short compared to an old fashioned SVGA monitor.
I am surprised that you were unable to make everything fit on the screen by reducing the font sizes as described in the FAQ. I fairly often see the problem of the column selection dialog being too tall for the screen at the default font size. Reducing all the fonts by 1 or 2 point has always worked in the past in my observation.
The immediate work-aroudn I can think of off the top of my head is inelegant, but should work. In the linux windows managers, there is usually a key/mouse combination that will move a window. It usually involves clicking somewhere in the window while holding down the Alt key (although you may need to look into your window behavior configurations). If you do so and drag the window up, that should expose the OK button by moving the top of the window above the top of the screen. (That is, I am confident that the OK button is there, it is just off the bottom of the screen.) That's annoying, certainly, but it should get you over the hurdle.
In the meantime, I will think about a better solution.
B
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