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. > -- buddy windows is wide three to four times the desktop and impossible to resize https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108468 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
