window size in FC2

[beartooth]

I've just installed FC2 from CDs, upgrading FC1, on a 1998 p2 with 350
MHz, 393MB RAM, two hard drives 20GB and 30GB. Two of my applications have
sizes which I can't get to fit my screens. (I use everything in the
intermediate size, whatever it's called, neither max nor min; that little
bit ob desktop background peeking around the edges helps me keep track
which machine I'm on.) Pan insists on being so wide I can't get to the
scrolling tools on both sides without shifting the whole window back and
forth. The Preferences window for Konqueror (which I run under Gnome, not
in KDE) insists on being so tall that I can't get to the buttons at the
bottom at all, and thus can't tweak Konqueror -- rendering it unusable.

This problem has turned up repeatedly with these apps under successive
OSs, both upgraded and clean-installed, and has always eventually gone
away. How do you *make* it go away?

The CDs were newly downloaded, in case that matters; I ran both yum update
and up2date, first on yum and on up2date themselves, then against
everything, till both reported nothing new to update. Ran updatedb and rpm
--rebuilddb, and ran both again. I keep the up2date icon on a panel, and
have nightly yum update enabled under Sessions. It seems as if by now this
hassle oughtta remove itself ....

Oh, one more hardware note: I'm using a BenQ FP767 monitor, behind a KVM
switch on both the FC2 machine and two others; but the same problem
appeared with RH9 or FC1 at first, when I had never heard of BenQ nor KVM
switches; so surely it *shouldn't* be either ...

-- 
Beartooth Implacable, Linux Evangelist & Gadfly
neo-redneck, curmudgeonly codger with FC1 & 2, YDL 4.0
Pine 4.62, Pan 0.14.2; Privoxy 3.0.1; Opera 7.54, Firefox 1.0
Bear in mind that I have little idea what I am talking about.