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mozilla-thunderbird package

thunderbird dialog boxes are cut off at the bottom

Asked by Kayvee

I have a 15-inch monitor with a 1024x768 resolution. When I open thunderbird and, say, want to add an email address to the Address Book, a dialog box appears. But because the dialog box is too big, 'OK' and 'Cancel' buttons are not displayed. [see screenshot here: http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/7060/screenshotb.png] This happens with large dialog boxes from all programs. When I connect the same computer to a larger monitor and change the resolution to 1280x1024, it works just fine. Is this a bug? Or is there a way to resize the dialog boxes or something...?

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#1

It's a bug. Please send a report to bug-squad using the "Help" menu and i'll send this to them too. The 2 reports can be linked up easily - one will be marked as a duplicate. I try changing the resolution and then count the number of times i have to press the tab key to get to the right box, then reset my resolution.

Good luck with this
Regards from
Tom :)

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Kayvee (vkkodali) said : 		#2

I posted the same question in Ubuntu Forums. Here is what I got:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1076298

That said, I agree with Tom that it is some kind of a bug. I think Scroll bars should appear whenever such a situation occurs... (I did not know that there was an 'OK' button at the end of that thunderbird dialog box until I saw it in the larger monitor!) Since Tom already posted it as a bug, I am not posting it again. And I am marking this issue as 'Solved' for now...

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#3

Oh yes moving the top and bottom panels out of the way is quite handy when some java script changes Mozilla to be larger than my screen size. I leave them permanently unlocked for that. It's handy to know about the Alt and drag but it doesn't seem to work on mine and is only really a work-around as i still think its a big problem. I meant to post it as a thunderbird bug but made a mistake. i think i can change it but i also have the same problem with a lot of other apps such as OpenOffice and Gimp. Thanks for the link to the work-around :)

Thanks and regards from
Tom :)

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#4

Ahh brilliant i think you've fixed the bug report, thanks :)