Can't see bottom of window?

[John Whitmore]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 02:38:22PM -0600, Dale Alspach wrote:
> Re: Alt key
> 
> Try using the Super or Windows meta key instead of Alt. The choice of key
> for grabbing a window is usually a setting for your desktop in something
> like Preferences Windows. I am using Mate so the location of the setting may
> be slightly different for you.
> 
> Dale
> 

Nice one Dale!

So I installed a new window manager FVWM2 (Oh the pain) and GnuCash acted
exactly the same can make the window narrow but not short. So back to Gnome
and you're right it's the WINDOWS Key so at least I can move the window so I
can see the bottom.

Thanks a million

> 
> On 12/08/2016 02:08 PM, John Whitmore wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 01:54:36PM -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> > > At Thu, 8 Dec 2016 18:40:03 +0000 John Whitmore <arigead at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 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.
> > > Which GnuCash window? *I* can shorten GnuCash's account or transaction windows
> > > down to *silly* shortness -- shows 2 accounts in the account window, or 10
> > > transactions in the transaction (basic ledger) in GnuCash 2.4.15 (which is
> > > what I have with CentOS 6).  This is with FVWM as the window manager.
> > > 
> > > How small is your display?  Don't tell me you have a 480x640 screen?  Really?
> > > 
> > Not really ;-) 1366x768 but I'll grant you I could use a new computer. Maybe
> > Santa will bring me one.
> > 
> > I have the accounts window open with 22 accounts on the display.
> > 
> > Liz mention holding ALT while moving the window but that ain't working for
> > me. I guess I'll have to try and install another window manager but this is
> > perculiar to GnuCash. If I install FVWM and it acts the same I'm taking the
> > rest of the day off.
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