Problem installing 19.10

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 21:45, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Perhaps you just couldn't pull it up far enough.  I have never seen a
window stretch when moving the title bar.
Worth trying dragging the whole window, pushing the title bar off the top.

Colin