When Maximized, data goes beyong edge of screen.
Steven Vollom
stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net
Tue Sep 30 17:29:43 UTC 2008
Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 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
>
>
Dear Jonas,
Thanks a lot, that works and helps a lot. I am still going to keep the
post up, to see if I can get a proper fix, nonetheless, this at least
will make it so I can continue work.
Cordially,
Steven
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