Alan Taylor posted on Sun, 20 Mar 2016 12:33:21 -0300 as excerpted: > I forgot something about the newest Windows installer. I am running two > screens. When I open the Edit - Edit Preferences window, that window is > almost two screens wide and cannot be resized in the horizontal with the > mouse. I can resize it vertically with the mouse.
Pan's prefs dialog had a bug similar to that, only with height not width, some time ago on Linux. I set a kde/kwin window rule for it to force the size to something appropriate, and forgot about it, but someone mentioned it on the list a year or so ago (actually maybe two years ago now, time flies when you're having fun!), and I was dismayed to find that when I disabled my window rule forcing a particular size, the prefs dialog was /still/ several screens high! Let me disable the rule and see what I get now... Sure enough, bug's still there. =:^( In that case the bug was introduced when the shortcuts/hotkeys tab was added to prefs, as there's a lot of them and apparently the code adjusted to the full desktop size (I have three monitors, but in stacked config, not side-by-side), not the single monitor size, so the window resized to near full desktop height by default. Presumably this bug is something similar, or possibly the same one but triggering on width for you because you're configured multi-monitor wide, while I'm configured multi-monitor tall. So my workaround suggestion would be to set similar window rules overriding the size. Can MS Windows can do that? Back around the turn of the century when I got off of MS due to them deciding to include malware in eXPrivacy, it was possible, but only using third party window management utilities. (FWIW, I had actually coded up my own, using Visual Basic, but there were various alternatives available for the download on the various power-user sites.) I've no idea what has happened on MS in that area since, but I read they allow virtual desktops as-shipped now, so perhaps they allow users to override window size and placement with shipped tools now, as well. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
