Question about netbook screens

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 18:00 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> Hi Desktop SIG,
> 
> When I talked to someone with an EeePC today, he told me he wanted to
> have Fedora 11 but had to install another OS, because Fedora would
> sometimes draw windows whose action areas weren't on the screen, so he
> couldn't make button selections.  I don't have a netbook, so I don't
> know if or how this problem might be solved, and was hoping someone
> could tell me.

One trick that is useful to know when dealing with the inadvertent
oversized dialog is that metacity lets you move a window even when you
can't see the titlebar, via Alt-F7 or Alt-Button1.