Problem installing 19.10

[Bret Busby]

On 22/10/2019, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 20:53, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> The one problem that I had, in the procedures, was in the cases of the
>> upgrades, where, when the process gets to the screen where it says x
>> number of packages will be installed, x number of packages are no
>> longer supported, and x number of packages will be removed, to view
>> the packages that are to be removed, the dialogue box expands, so that
>> the bottom, where the buttons to proceed or quit, are visible,
>> disappears off the bottom of the screen, never to be seen again, even
>> after the area where the packages are listed, is minimised, so, the
>> upgrade procedure has to be killed and restarted.
>
> On the standard Ubuntu system if you hold down the windows key and
> left mouse button you can drag a window without needing access to the
> title bar.  Thus it should be possible to move the window up to get to
> the disappearing buttons.
>

I could access the title bar. When I dragged that, like also trying to
use the "resize window", it just dragged the title bar upward, and the
buttons and the bottom of the dialogue box, stayed anchored below the
bottom of the visible area.


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Bret Busby
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West Australia
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