Dealing with 800x480 displays

[Dmitri Bachtin]

On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 09:37 -0500, Jim wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > Either FC9 or FC10:
> >
> > How do you work with displays that are only 800x480 (like the ASUS 
> > eee)?  There are gnome dialogs that seem to require 800x600, so I 
> > can't 'see' the bottom of these dialogs where trival buttons like
> 'OK' 
> > are....
> >
> >
> You'll have to learn to live with the resolution, but to see the
> bottom 
> of a window, 'hold down' on the 'ALT' key and move your mouse to the 
> window and then 'hold down' on 'left mouse button' and you'll be able
> to 
> move the window around to see
> the  "OK" button at bottom of window.

Few additional tricks:
 * kiosk mode ( check
http://www.enigmacurry.com/2007/02/17/gnome-kiosk-mode-make-any-app-fullscreen/ and comments there, too ), but it doesn't work with every window
 * get all elements into the top bar - replace main menu with the
smaller version, remove the user switcher and add window list there 

 -- Dmitri Bachtin