Hi,

Thanks for the hint. It is indeed the mail notification that does that.
However, it is not limited to MSN, as I kept having the same problem
until I disabled that function for Yahoo Messenger as well.

Best regards


On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 18:42 +0000, Nicolas Riesco wrote:
> Here it happened the same.
> 
> In my case, I discovered this bug was triggered by my MSN account
> having enabled the option "New mail notifications".
> 
> As a workaround, I just disabled it. This solved half of the problem,
> because I couldn't change the window width using the mouse. To restore
> the window width I had to edit the file ~/.gaim/prefs.xml and change
> the width in the following section:
>                       <pref name='blist'>
>                               <pref name='show_buddy_icons' type='bool' 
> value='1'/>
>                               <pref name='show_empty_groups' type='bool' 
> value='0'/>
>                               <pref name='show_idle_time' type='bool' 
> value='1'/>
>                               <pref name='show_offline_buddies' type='bool' 
> value='0'/>
>                               <pref name='list_visible' type='bool' 
> value='1'/>
>                               <pref name='list_maximized' type='bool' 
> value='0'/>
>                               <pref name='sort_type' type='string' 
> value='alphabetical'/>
>                               <pref name='x' type='int' value='40'/>
>                               <pref name='y' type='int' value='76'/>
>                               <pref name='width' type='int' value='1466'/>
>                               <pref name='height' type='int' value='551'/>
>                               <pref name='tooltip_delay' type='int' 
> value='500'/>
>                       </pref>
> 
> to something more sensible:
>                               <pref name='width' type='int' value='466'/>
> 
> Hope this is helpful.
>

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buddy windows is wide three to four times the desktop and impossible to resize 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108468
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