[Nottingham] Small screen, big apps....

[Alex Tibbles]

Karl,

My guess would be that this can be overridden in the
GConf for gFTP, under apps, gftp? I recommend asking
someone more clueful (than me!) about GConf window
size settings :)

Cheers,
Alex

--- Karl Ryan <karlryan.public at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi David!
> 
> I just had a quick look at the gFTP site and it
> recommends running X Windows
> in 800x600 mode so it would be my guess that it is a
> software issue which
> may possibly be non-configurable. Perhaps other
> people have any other
> thoughts on this?
> 
> -- 
> Karl Ryan
> 
> 
> > From: David Aldred <david at familyaldred.org.uk>
> > Organization: none
> > Reply-To: <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> > Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 22:58:07 +0000
> > To: <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> > Subject: [Nottingham] Small screen, big apps....
> > 
> > 
> > Hello again, everyone!
> > 
> > I'm playing with a very small computer - a Toshiba
> Libretto - and having a
> > reasonable degree of success running linux on it.
> > 
> > One problem I can't get round at the moment is
> this: quite a lot of X
> > applications seem to be running on the assupmtion
> that my screen size is a
> > lot bigger than it is.  I've only got 640x480
> reolution.
> > 
> > Taking gftp as an example, when it starts I can
> only see about half the gftp
> > window.  The font size is enormous, and even if 
> could shrink the font the
> > rest of it (input boxes etc) wouldn't fit on the
> screen.
> > 
> > The basic window manager (fluxbox), rxvt, and many
> other applications seem
> > fine - it's just a few of them, presumably based
> on the same underlying
> > library of config file somewhere, which are
> troublesome.
> > 
> > The two examples I can find quickly are gftp and
> gvim - the leading 'g' may
> > well be significant.....
> > 
> > -- 
> > David Aldred
> > 
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