[GNC] No Maximise button on 3.3 in Ubuntu 18.10

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Fri Oct 12 11:15:41 EDT 2018


I am using standard Ubuntu not Xubuntu, so there are normally the
usual Close, Minimise and Maximise buttons in the window title bar.
The maximise is a white square.

I was not entirely accurate in my last post.  I have the Ubuntu Dock
bar down the left hand side and not auto hidden which reduces the
available window width slightly.  If I put the dock at the bottom of
the screen then it is possible to see the whole gnucash window width
and the maximise is available again.  I guess something is noticing
that there is not room for the minimum window width when maximised so
it won't let it maximise.  It is a 1280 width screen so the minimum
window width that gnucash will let me shrink the window to, with the
tabs at the side, is about 1200 pixels.

Colin
On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 16:00, Roger Miskowicz <rmisko11 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I tried what I think you said in 18.04 and 3.35 can not shrink to where there is a horizontal scroll bar.  The Maximize '+' button is there regardless whether the tabs are at the top or right side.
>
> Just to ensure we're talking about the same button.  In Xubuntu 18.04 I don't have the Maximize button as displayed by Alt-Touch instead at the top right I just have '-+x' which seems to be what I have in all my applications.  The '+' toggles maximize or not maximize.
>
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 10:38 AM Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, I should have said that all other apps I have tried operate as expected.
>>
>> Alt-Space does not show Maximise.  It does show Unmaximise but it is greyed out.
>>
>> However I have had a Eureka moment.  There seems to be a change with
>> 3.3 to do with window width. On 2.9 the window (when not maximised)
>> could be shrunk down so that the right hand fields of the register
>> were not visible, and a scroll bar then appeared at the bottom of the
>> register.  With 3.3 it appears this is not possible, the window can
>> not be shrunk to the point where a scroll bar appears.  I have my tabs
>> shown down the right hand side and the result is that the smallest
>> window size is slightly larger than the size of my screen.  In that
>> state it is not possible to maximise the window.  If I place the tabs
>> at the top then it is possible to maximise.  I can then place them at
>> the side again and it stays maximised but if I close and re-open
>> gnucash then it unmaximises again.
>>
>> This may also have been an issue happened when I built 3.3 from source
>> on Ubuntu 18.04 to test it, I don't know. I may just not have noticed
>> it then.
>>
>> Colin
>> On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 14:59, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > At Fri, 12 Oct 2018 14:39:11 +0100 Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Running Gnucash 3.3 in Ubuntu 18.10 Beta from the Ubuntu repository
>> > > there is no maximise button, and the window will not maximise by the
>> > > usual shortcut methods.  Has anyone else seen anything similar?
>> > > Should I file a bug under the Ubuntu system or gnucash?
>> >
>> > Window [size] management (maximize,minimize,resize, etc.) is a function of the
>> > window manager (duh). Can you maximise any other application windows under
>> > Ubuntu 18.10 Beta?
>> >
>> > It *might* be an issue with the GUI toolkit gnucash is using or *possibly* a
>> > gnucash bug in how gnucash is using that GUI toolkit.
>> >
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Colin
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