F9 EeePC add/remove trouble

[Jim]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 19:25 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:16:52 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 16:31 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>>>       
>>>> 	When I clidk on the add/remove software launcher in the panel, I
>>>> get a window way bigger than my screen -- so big that even moving it
>>>> around enough to click where I need takes fancy tricks. Trying to
>>>> unmaximize  is no help.
>>>>
>>>> 	Do I need to run system-config-display?? Other windows behave ...
>>>>         
>>> system-config-display is for configuring the display (duh ...). It's not
>>> going to help make a specific window any smaller.
>>>       
>> 	I run gnome -- and, oddly enough, at times when I've had that a/
>> o /etc/X11/xorg.conf fouled way up, such behavior has repeatedly been one 
>> of the symptoms.
>>     
>
> A single window is too big and everything else is OK? I can understand
> the screen being the wrong size, which would affect everything including
> the panel etc., but not one window. The display config doesn't know
> anything about windows.
>
> If you do have the wrong screen resolution, then system-config-display
> is where you fix it, but this affects everything.
>
>   
>>> This may be fixable through your desktop configuration controls, but you
>>> don't say which dekstop you're using.
>>>       
>> 	I run gnome and metacity; is that what you're asking?
>>     
>
> Gnome is a desktop environment, as is KDE. Metacity is a window manager
> often used with Gnome (the equivalent in KDE is kwm). Since I rarely use
> them that's as far as I can go, but if your problem is with one window
> then the fix will be there if at all and not in the display config.
>
> poc
>
>   
No matter what you do to Display settings in Linux , it is not going 
allow a higher resolution than 800x600 on the
eeePC 7" display, if you have a 10" display like on the eeePC 900 than 
you can set it to a higher resolution.