[Pan-users] Sizing Pan's window

[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. I use everything in the
intermediate size, whatever it's called, neither max nor min; that little
bit of 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.

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 ....

It may be a hardware issue, in a sense : I'm using a BenQ FP767 monitor,
behind a KVM switch, on both the FC2 machine and two others (which run
FC1); it did turn out I had forgotten to go to Main Menu > System Settings
> Display under FC2 and tell the machine I was running the Benq, not a
generic LCD. That helped, noticeably.

But the window is still too wide, and the width not adjustable: the cursor
changes form, on any edge; if it's a horizontal edge, I can drag it and
make the window larger or smaller -- but not if it's vertical. I drag, and
nothing happens.

Detail: the Benq uses 1280 x 1024 -- and FC1 acknowledges that. FC2 offers
only a choice between 800 x 600 (not 640) and 640 x 480 -- and I see no
way, at least through the GUI, to make it 1280 x 1024 instead of either.

I have no idea whether those dimensions affect the ability to shape the
window at all; I mention the detail in case they do.

-- 
Beartooth Implacable, Linux Evangelist & Gadfly
neo-redneck, curmudgeonly codger with FC1 & YDL 4.0
Pine 4.61, 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.