Cannot see the whole screen on my netbook

[jingaling]

Hey Guys,

I have been playing with Maverick (and this was the same on earlier versions).

When I am on my netbook (a 10.1" compaq mini with resolution set at the highest setting - 1024x600) I cannot see the whole window. This happens frequently in Eveolution where the bottom of the window is 'missing' so I cannot click ok when changing setting ect. This is extremely annoying and it is the only reason why I am still running Windows on my netbook.

Has anyone has a similar problem with there netbooks and is there a fix? Or is this just another linux-ism?? I really want to love linux and use it on all my machines (not just the ones with big screens) but this makes it extremely difficult.

Thanks guys,

Jing

Thanks Guys

[jingaling]

Bump!

[roggenschrotbrot]

most applications don't play well with the tiny vertical resolutions netbooks offer, and its not a linux only problem. there are a few ways to handle this:

you can move a window by pressing alt and left mouse button
you can move/autohide your panels (if using gnome-panel instead of unity) by right-clicking them and select autohide/orientation in its preferences
you can use gnome-color-chooser and set the widgets spacing to 0. i highly recomend this as it results in much more compact windows

[jingaling]

THanks, I will try those and see how I get on then re-post.