[Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Properties dialog too big for small displays (eee PC display)

[Agustin Lobo]

Yes! This is useful, as the problem was that I could
not reach the bottom of the dialog.

Anyway (for devs), could not it be
possible making the windows so that could be resized to smaller
sizes in future releases?

Agus

Garvan & maew wrote:
> Agus,
> 
> I think the shortcut keys Alt-F7 will change the mouse pointer to a hand 
> in the center of the active screen, and then you can move the window 
> outside the upper bounds of the desktop to reach the buttons at the 
> bottom. In my set up (Ubuntu) this works, while clicking on the system 
> menu item  "Move Window" will not work because the window vertical 
> position is confined.
> 
> It's a handy shortcut to remember on an EeePC, even if it does not work 
> for you this time.
> 
> Garvan
> 
> 
> Agustin Lobo wrote:
>> Otto,
>>
>> the problem is not moving the properties dialog, the problem is that 
>> it's too large and even moving it to the top I cannot reach the buttons
>> at the bottom.
>>
>> Agus
>>
>> Message: 2 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:53:08 +0100
>> From: Otto Dassau <otto.dassau at gmx.de>
>> Subject: [Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Properties dialog too big 
>> for small displays (eee PC display)
>> To: qgis-user <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> Cc: qgis-developer 
>> <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> Message-ID: 
>> <20090227085308.55a62d04 at nature> Content-Type: text/plain; 
>> charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:44:59 +0100 Agustin Lobo
>>
>> <Agustin.Lobo at ija.csic.es> wrote:
>> > > I'm running QGIS on a ASUS eee PC 901 under
>> > > ubuntu eee 8.04. I find no major
>> > > problems except that the GUI panel
>> > > for Properties is so big that I cannot
>> > > reach the buttons at the bottom and
>> > > cannot select OK, thus no way of
>> > > using it. I cannot resize the window to
>> > > make it smaller. The display is 1024x600
>> > > Any solution?
>>
>> pressing keys (Alt + 5) together you should be able to click on the 
>> properties
>> dialog with the left mouse button and move it upwards (or whereever).
>>
>> hth
>>  Otto
>>
>>
> 
> 

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