On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 10:59:43 -0000 (UTC), Duncan wrote: > David Chmelik posted on Thu, 21 Aug 2025 03:16:02 -0000 (UTC) as > excerpted: >> Headers pane columns are wrong size and some not draggable: bytes >> apparently no longer can be dragged from right to shorten (even after I >> lengthened others) or is there another way? Takes maybe 2/3 columns' >> space when that extra size would be significantly larger than Usenet or >> entire Internet, while 'subject' should take that space but takes maybe >> 1/4, and 'author', 'date' are also too small but 'lines' is too long. >> It'd be easier if these were configurable numerically or a way (for all >> panes) you don't have to find hidden handles to drag. > > There is another way, yes, but it's a bit more technical than some may > be comfortable with... > > The size of each column, is stored in pan's preferences.xml file, to be > found in (by default) ~/.pan2/preferences.xml . > > For instance, here's my bytes column setting, 63 (logical, scaled by > display-scale settings) pixels: > > <int name='header-pane-bytes-column-width' value='63'/> > > With pan closed (so it doesn't overwrite your changes) you can edit that > file, tho I'd suggest making a backup of it first just in case. > Naturally your choice of font size will dictate how many letters a > particular pixel width displays so you may have to experiment a bit to > get it looking as you want, but there it is.
Thanks! > I don't know why some of the column dividers aren't draggable for you, > presumably a bug of some sort, but (you can stop reading if you're not > interested in the history of how I'm all too familiar with the column- > width settings in preferences.xml!)... I read a lot of that. Apparently they are draggable, but at least few things have to be the case: columns longer than screen, and scrolled all the way right, and put mouse by last pixel before the border, and then it usually should work. > [...] > But now you're seeing another column-with related bug... At least I can > point you to the lines to edit in preferences.xml... while I hope I > never see it, or worst-case, that text-editing either that file or my > patches that worked around the zeroed-out bug for me work around it, and > that whatever the problem is, it's a bug that goes away with an upgrade > of either pan or some library or other so I only see it once, unlike > that repeatedly triggered gtk2 bug that only went away permanently for > me with the upgrade to gtk3. Might not actually be a big, but I don't think the handles appear in my X Window System (XFCE) session with custom X pointers, though they fall back on the defauly set if missing handles. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
