[GNC] No Maximise button on 3.3 in Ubuntu 18.10

[Adrien Monteleone]

Colin,

Can you manually resize GC as if you used the maximize button? How does the window behave? (scrollbars?)

Regards,
Adrien

> On Oct 12, 2018, at 10:15 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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