Can't see bottom of window?

John Whitmore arigead at gmail.com
Thu Dec 8 13:40:03 EST 2016


On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 01:32:39PM -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Thu, 8 Dec 2016 17:34:37 +0000 John Whitmore <arigead at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'm running GnuCash 2.6.14 on OpenSuse Tumbleweed and Gnome
> > 
> > I can't get GnuCash to sit inside the physical display. It's displaying below
> > the bottom of the actual window so I've no idea what's down there. I can't
> > move the window up past the top edge so bottom edge just can't be reached to
> > resize. I'm not being allowed to maximise.
> > 
> > Has anybody encountered that and what's the fix?
> 
> You *should* be able to grab the the top window manager border (above the 
> title), and drag it down -- any *sane* WM will let you resize from any of the 
> four borders.  This will "shorten" the window.  *Then* you can drag 
> the title bar to move the window up. 
> 
> If Metacity (Gnome's window manager), won't let you do that, you can install a 
> *sane* window manager that will let you do that (fvwm for example).  Then 
> scrap Metacity and use fvwm instead (yes it is possible to do that).  

All of that works on any other window but for some reason GnuCash appears to
have a limit set so that I can grab the top of the window to resize it but not
any shorter then it currently is. As you have outlined I can resize any
window, just not GnuCash which has this limit.

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