[HLUG] Size of gimp printing window

[Graham Cole]

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 13:00 +0100, John Hedges wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 06:02:06PM +0100, Graham Cole wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 11:40 +0100, Graham Cole wrote:
> > > I have my printer working at last but only with Gimp. When I request
> > > printing (in gimp) I get an over-sized window with top and bottom out of
> > > the frame. I get nothing if I right-click on the window. Also dragging
> > > the sides will not work. What can I do to re-size this window please? 
> >
> > I have made progress: I found I can get a menu by right-clicking when
> > the arrow is hovering on the window edge. From this menu the 'move'
> > option works, the re-size option does not, except for shrinking the
> > widow sideways. It produces a fist icon with no apparent usage. Perhaps
> > my system has a bug. Or am I not clever enough for Gimp? I have version
> > 2.2.2. With the 'move' facility I am able to see the top or bottom of
> > the window but I will be very pleased to learn how to do a normal
> > re-size!
> > Thanks,
> > Graham
> > 
> 
> I've tried shrinking the dialog but without success so you'll have to
> move it or get more screen space.
> 
> Did you set your screen resolution?  On my gnome menu it is
> 'Applications->Desktop Preferences->Screen Resolution'. I imagine a
> 1024x768 desktop could fit the whole gimp print dialog.
> 
> Cheers
> John
> 
> 
> ______________________________________
The increase in screen resolution did the trick easily. Thanks very
much.
I have found in Synaptic that there are packages available for
configuring printers which were not installed with Ubuntu Hoary. One was
for USB printers but was said to be unauthorised and possibly risky. The
other called foomatic-gui has not yet worked. I installed it but there
are problems which I am working on. It asks for some old and
unobtainable packages to be imported. I edited to call for the upgraded
packages and hope to get the package working without much fuss.
I left the problem while I went to the WOMAD festival.
Thanks again
Graham