Hey Jarrod, Still running your CF-25 too? That's awesome, mine is still kicking as well.
As far as the issue you are talking about, I've struggled with it myself. Alt-click-drag (as Graham suggests - is the way I've traditionally gotten around it. Also right-click on the top window bar to context menu -> maximize - this way at least you might get a scroll bar. :/ Aaaaaanyway, I see you are running Ubuntu. I've taken a shining to BeatrIX for my little toughie. http://www.watsky.net/ Very lean and light and is based on a trimed-down Ubuntu (200 meg live disk with installer) my footprint after the initial install was about 350 meg and I had everything -including sound- working (needed some fiddling though). After apt-getting some other goodies I'm sitting at about 1 gig with a nicely pimped-out 166MHz box. On the downside you're kind of stuck using Gnome (No offence Jesse) because of some weird kernel optimization stuff (very perky for Gnome on a 166 though). Anyway, it's worth a look. This is as lean and smooth as thing has ever run for relatively painless GUI-rific install. Anyway I've been meaning to pass this on to you. Now is as good a time as any I suppose. At any rate - It's worth looking at for a low-spec desktop distro. They have a new one well in the works by the looks of it too, likely based on Hoary. ...Now all we need is BeatrIKs Cheers everyone (your base are belong to us), Marcel (shameless top-poster and thread hijacker extrodinaire) On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 13:21 -0600, Jarrod Major wrote: > Has anyone encountered problems with KDE dialog windows at lower monitor > resolutions? Here's the scenario: > > - my laptop _only_ supports 800x600 maximum resolution (it's an older > ToughBook CF-25) > - I have Ubuntu (Hoary with KDE) installed > - when I try to change my network configuration, I try to use > System->Settings->Internet & Network->Network Settings > - I get the Configure dialog window but the buttons are cut off because of > my resolution and the dialog window has no scroll bars so I cannot get to > the buttons like Administrator Mode and OK and Cancel > > I experimented with the shortcuts and found alt+m would get me to what > appeared to be Administrator mode, I get prompted for a password, I enter it > but then it appears to go back to the default user mode in which I cannot > change any settings. I have tried this multiple times to no avail in case I > mistyped my password. > > I am sure there are ways to change my network settings through command-line, > this is not the issue. I am more concerned with how I am supposed to cope > with dialogue windows not showing me everything. The scale to a point but > the minimum size appears out of my range. I even went into the Window > settings and chose advanced to see if I could force it to a particular size > but the buttons remained hidden and there were no scroll bars that might > enable me to get to them. > > I am guessing that there is a reason for this but it is escaping me. I am > also cognizant of the fact that my settings are not in the target > demographic. Most people are able to do 1024x768 at least. Does anyone know > of a way I can fix this? Is there a way to fix this or do I have to work > around it? > > Curious, > > Jarrod > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
