Thanks to the hint by Edwin Pozharski and Folmer Fredslund, I could
resolve the issue.

Solution: Move the vertical toolbar to the top.

Best, Tobias.

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Tobias Beck <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on a Sony Vaio Z. With coot I experience an 
> interesting graphical feature. When I maximise the window, the window does 
> not fit to the screen anymore. Moreover the window now jumps between two 
> different views, shown here:
>
> http://shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de/~tbeck/scratch/coot1.png
> http://shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de/~tbeck/scratch/coot2.png
>
> It does not matter where I click, the window jumps between both states. As a 
> result, I cannot click on anything, since the window moves first, i.e. I 
> can't even open the menu. I can work in the non-maximised mode (either 
> manually adjusted with the mouse or a full screen button added like shown 
> here 
> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind1010&L=COOT&P=R2&1=COOT&9=A&I=-3&J=on&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches&z=4
>  ).
>
> However, I can only adjust the window in the horizontal direction, the window 
> already starts way too large in the vertical direction, with no status bar at 
> the bottom visible:
>
> http://shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de/~tbeck/scratch/coot3.png
>
> The result is that I can't read what's printed on the status line, like B 
> factors, distance and all that. I can of course look in the terminal window, 
> but I would prefer to have the usual maximised coot window.
>
> Maybe this is due to the desktop/panels settings in Ubuntu. I have changed 
> the top and bottom panel (made them move away when not active, deleted them, 
> ...) but the coot window still jumps, just maximised to the new free space, 
> but still no full window visible. So far I have only experienced this 
> behaviour with coot. Pymol, ccp4i, ... are fine. I have tried both the 
> nightly build coot-Linux-x86_64-ubuntu-9.04-gtk2-python and the one packaged 
> by Morten Kjeldgaard, no difference.
>
> When using an external screen, there is no problem at all. The coot window 
> can be maximised to the full screen, status bar visible.
>
> Maybe someone has experienced something similar and can give me some advice 
> how to resolve this? Any help would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks, Tobias.
>



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Dr. Tobias Beck
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Georg-August University Goettingen
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