Can't see bottom of window?

[Jean-David Beyer]

On 12/08/2016 03:08 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).  

I run RHEL6 that uses Gnome with metacity. I just opened GnuCash, opened
the accounts window ( have lots of accounts) and shrunk it down so it is
normal width, but displays only 7.5 accounts
>>>
>>> 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.

I am running
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.8 (Santiago)
gnucash-2.4.15-4.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.x86_64

Actual display is 1280x1024

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