[Ifeffit] ATHENA: \\\"you have not used any memory yet\\\"

[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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