[techtalk] Netscape screens...

[Telsa Gwynne]

On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 12:12:38AM -0400 or thereabouts, Sharon Souter wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Speaking of Netscape. I have encountered an unusual (to me anyway) problem.
> When I go to the screen to configure my e-mail server, the bottom extends
> below the working area on my screen and I cannot get to the OK button to
> save my settings to save life :(  This is the only program that is doing
> this.

Oh, fun. 
 
> I have tried changing my resolution, which I really didn't want to do...but
> that didn't help either. The virtual desktop is no help, it just shows me a
> blank screen below where I'm trying to get to. I have also tried all of the
> window functions. What am I missing here?

You don't say whether this is Netscape on Windows, which I know nothing
about, or Netscape on Linux, which I assume given the topic of the list.
What window manager are you using? Many of them have a neat trick of
moving a window around even when it's too big for the screen. In mine
(windowmaker) for example, instead of holding down button-1 on the
titlebar to move it about, you can hold down the alt-button and then
hold down button-1 anywhere on the window and move the thing about.
So you can move the whole thing up the screen and get at the OK button
as it comes into view :) It's very very handy. I don't know what it is 
for other window managers, but it will be there somewhere.

The other thing about Netscape is that there will be a file somewhere
on your machine called Netscape.ad (it's in /usr/doc/netscape-common*
on my machine) and it has a lot of defaults in it. If Netscape is the
right size, just starting too low, I believe this is the place to 
set the geometry for when it opens. It's a massive file with lots of
sections: with luck there will be one for the size of the preferences
windows too? If so, you can fix it permanently with that, I expect.

Note: I've never changed anything in that file. I get as far down as
about five screens in (which is sill only 1% of the way, and I start
giggling at Jamie Zawinski's (I suspect) rants about keyboards and
keyboard bindings and forget what I was intending to do. But I am
told that's where to look, anyway..

Telsa