Re: [Gramps-users] Display problem

[Alex R. <sh...@al...>]

John,

On 07/27/2004 11:45:22 PM, John Whitehand wrote:
> I am not sure where my problem lies and hope someone on this list can=20
> help. I have a 13.8" ( Ipex H567) VGA monitor -pnp   using on board SiS=
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> 650 chip  & versa  generic adaptor. Running 800x600   my Redhat 9=20
> installation is OK however when I load  GRAMPS  1.0.4 it becomes=20
> necessary to "Stretch the friendship to 1024x786 or greater" to=20
> accommodate the GRAMPS display causing difficulty  outside the program.

Ugh, this is the problem we never thought we'd face :-)

>   As  other Apps  don't render a problem I thought that a cause/solution=
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>   may lie within Gramps...
>   any serious suggestions welcome...

You are correct -- gramps is guilty of setting a fixed pixel size for its m=
ain=20
window as well as some of its dialogs. It is done indirectly, through setti=
ng
the size of the internal widgets.

Anyway, if you can try applying the patch below (one line removal) and let
me know how it works for you it would be great. The patch should be
applied to the gramps.glade file which is found in either /usr/share/gramps=
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or in /usr/local/share/gramps (depending on your installation).

Let me know if it fixes the main gramps window for you. We will
need some more changes to make dialogs smaller, but it's a start.

Alex

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diff -u -r1.87 gramps.glade
--- gramps.glade        6 Feb 2004 20:57:01 -0000       1.87
+++ gramps.glade        28 Jul 2004 15:06:30 -0000
@@ -1170,7 +1170,6 @@
          <child>
            <widget class=3D"GtkNotebook" id=3D"views">
              <property name=3D"border_width">3</property>
-             <property name=3D"width_request">750</property>
              <property name=3D"visible">True</property>
              <property name=3D"can_focus">True</property>
              <property name=3D"show_tabs">True</property>

=3D=3D=3D

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