Question about netbook screens

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Mon Jul 27 14:37:13 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 21:14 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 18:00 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > Hi Desktop SIG,
> > 
> > When I talked to someone with an EeePC today, he told me he wanted to
> > have Fedora 11 but had to install another OS, because Fedora would
> > sometimes draw windows whose action areas weren't on the screen, so he
> > couldn't make button selections.  I don't have a netbook, so I don't
> > know if or how this problem might be solved, and was hoping someone
> > could tell me.
> 
> One trick that is useful to know when dealing with the inadvertent
> oversized dialog is that metacity lets you move a window even when you
> can't see the titlebar, via Alt-F7 or Alt-Button1.

At one point, this would not let you move the titlebar off the top of
the screen.  I haven't tried with metacity lately; it's certainly true
with compiz.

- ajax
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