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. > -- ___________________________________________ Dr. Tobias Beck Dept. Structural Chemistry Georg-August University Goettingen Tammannstr. 4 37077 Goettingen, Germany phone: +49 551 39-3075 fax: +49 551 39-22582 web: http://shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de/tbeck/ ___________________________________________
