I spoke too soon. While the PDF filled the screen, Skim was still pretty messed up. Two screen grabs will be attached to a personal e-mail.
--Ted Ted Pavlic wrote: > Christiaan -- > > I had the problem again today. I should have gotten a screen shot > (especially because the problem manifests itself slightly differently on > my setup, but is clearly the same problem). > > However, I was able to fix it in a different way. I went into my > Displays Preferences in the "Alignment" tab. Tweaking the alignment just > a tad (so that OS X was forced to redraw the screens) fixed the problem > (not permanently, of course). > > --Ted > > Christiaan Hofman wrote: >> BTW, would it be possible to make a screenshot of the screen when it >> goes wrong, and send it to the list or to me? >> >> Christiaan >> >> On 8/9/07, *Christiaan Hofman * <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> Very strange, if anything I would have expected the opposite ( i.e. it >> going right the first time, and wrong when you move to another >> screen). I can't see anything possibly wrong with the code, we even >> seem to be doing more fixing of the screen rect than we actually >> should be doing. If I can understand more of what's going wrong I >> could file a bug report with Apple, because I can't imagine it's >> going wrong on our end. >> >> Christiaan >> >> On 9 Aug 2007, at 9:50 PM, Ted Pavlic wrote: >> >> > Additionally, moving the document from the secondary display to the >> > primary display, THEN going full screen, THEN moving the document >> back >> > to the secondary display and going full screen will make things work. >> > >> > So, there appears to be some strange bug under certain resolutions.. >> > >> > --Ted >> > >> > Ted Pavlic wrote: >> >> UPDATE: >> >> >> >> His (and my) primary resolution: 1440x900 >> >> >> >> His secondary resolution: 1600x1200 >> >> >> >> WHEN HE CHANGED his secondary resolution to 1400x1050, things >> started >> >> working. IN FACT, changing things BACK to 1600x1200 made things >> start >> >> working again at THAT resolution (however, the left and right bars >> >> only >> >> spanned about 3/4 of the screen rather than the full screen). >> >> >> >> NOTE: My secondary resolution is 1280x1024. I've never had any >> >> problems. >> >> >> >> NOTE: We have not played around with changing the relative virtual >> >> position of his two monitors. >> >> >> >> --Ted >> >> >> >> Ted Pavlic wrote: >> >>> I don't have this problem, but my officemate does, and he's >> >>> running a >> >>> nearly identical setup as me. >> >>> >> >>> Both of us have Powerbook G4's connected to external monitors >> >>> (mine is >> >>> LCD; his is CRT). We are both stretching our desktop across each >> >>> monitor >> >>> and keeping the main desktop on the Powerbook's screen. We both >> >>> edit our >> >>> LaTeX on our PowerBook and display our PDF with Skim in the >> external >> >>> monitor. >> >>> >> >>> On my machine, full screen and presentation mode both work. >> >>> >> >>> On his machine, both modes produce a grey rectangle stretching >> >>> 3/4 up >> >>> the screen and 1/10 across the screen starting in the lower-right- >> >>> hand >> >>> corner. In full screen mode, his sidebars properly show up on the >> >>> left >> >>> and right. >> >>> >> >>> Has anyone else had a similar problem? >> >>> >> >>> On top of this, things worked fine when he first started using Skim >> >>> (which he thinks was Skim 0.5.1). However, at that time he was >> >>> using a >> >>> different monitor (an ancient HP CRT). >> >>> >> >>> Thoughts? -- >> >>> Ted >> >>> >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > Ted Pavlic <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> >> > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > --- >> > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. >> > Still grepping through log files to find problems? 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