When Maximized, data goes beyong edge of screen.

Jonas Norlander jonorland at gmail.com
Mon Sep 29 20:22:01 UTC 2008


2008/9/29 Steven Vollom <stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net>:
> It *isn't* like not having a big enough screen, it is having too long a
> page *where the scrolling option is missing*.  If I could scroll to read
> what is below the screen, I wouldn't consider it a problem.  When I say
> screen, I mean the monitor's surface, when I say window I mean the page
> that you open on the screen.  When that window exceeds the screen and
> their is no scrolling capability, you cannot get to the hidden
> information.
>
> This isn't all the time.  While I am writing you, I have the ability to
> scroll down; what I am talking about is  for instance  using my torrent
> program.   That as well as other packages is affected by this problem.
>
> Many of the buttons that allow you  to view alternate information
> involving the ktorrent  package are at the bottom of the page.  I am
> talking about things like status, peers,  etc.   The window that
> provides all that information is longer than my computer screen, and in
> that package (Ktorrent), there is no way to scroll to get to what is at
> the bottom.  When I am able to move a page around on the screen, I can
> only move the page until the cursor gets to the top of the screen, then
> I am stopped.  Because the information continues below the bottom of the
> screen and because the scrolling option is not present, I can not scroll
> down to get to that information.

Not a answer to your problem but perhaps a workaround.
If you holding the Alt key down and left click in a windows with the
mouse you can drag the windows so you can see the whole window.

/ Jonas




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