Greetings.
I'm running BOINC 6.10.58 with wxWidgets 2.6.10.

When I call up Advanced -> Preferences, the bottom part of the window won't fit on my screen. The cut is through 1/2 of the first line in the "Other Options" pane.

The <Alt> key can be used to move the window up and off the screen.
This makes the OK CANCEL HELP buttons visible.
BUT
the data at the bottom of the window is not displayed.
(I was trying to change the percentage of processors used.)

There is no scroll bar.
Is this a problem with the BOINC definition of the window,
or a widget bug, or do I need to switch from Gnome to GTK?

My laptop is an HP-mini with 1024x600 screen resolution.

I used xwininfo to measure this screen -
which uses all of the available vertical space.
It says:
xwininfo: Window id: 0x3200041 "Create new thread - Iceweasel"

Absolute upper-left X: 5
Absolute upper-left Y: 49
Relative upper-left X: 5
Relative upper-left Y: 24
Width: 825
Height: 518
Depth: 24
...
so there is only 518 pixels avaialable.
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BOINC reports this as environment..

Mon 05 Dec 2011 01:15:13 AM EST		Starting BOINC client version 6.10.58 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
Mon 05 Dec 2011 01:15:13 AM EST		Config: GUI RPC allowed from:
Mon 05 Dec 2011 01:15:13 AM EST		log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Mon 05 Dec 2011 01:15:13 AM EST		Libraries: libcurl/7.21.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8o zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.15 libssh2/1.2.6
Mon 05 Dec 2011 01:15:13 AM EST		Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Mon 05 Dec 2011 01:15:18 AM EST		Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270   @ 1.60GHz [Family 6 Model 28 Stepping 2]
Mon 05 Dec 2011 01:15:19 AM EST		Processor: 512.00 KB cache
Mon 05 Dec 2011 01:15:19 AM EST		Processor features: fpu vme de tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm
Mon 05 Dec 2011 01:15:19 AM EST		OS: Linux: 2.6.32-5-686

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Thanks in advance, Jay

As far as I know, it's still possible to resize that window in 6.10. Have you tried to grab a corner and resize it?

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Hi,

Yes, I tried to grab a corner or side.
It wouldn't grab.

I also run 6.12.34 (x64) on windows.
Tools->Computing Preferences goes to a similar screen.

Same window property there - Can't grab it.

If I have time, I'll check the alpha 7.02 release and try it.

Thank again,
Jay

Hi Dagorath,
Thank you for your response.
I went ahead and changed the preferences via a projects site.
I was just curious that the window wouldn't resize.
I *assume* that mine is initially limited because of a short display.
Tried on other, longer displays; no problem.

It is interesting that you don't have the problem on KDE

I'm a little reluctant to go to KDE, I fouled up before when switching
display mangers at the login screen.

I did try the 7.0.2 BOINC alpha release
Put in a link to satisfy a missing lib - as per dev forum:
(in /usr/lib)
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29644 Jun 29 2010 libnotify.so.1.2.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Dec 6 03:48 libnotify.so.4 -> libnotify.so.1.2.3

Got 7.0.2 manager to start; but same problem with window again.
Since it is repeatable, Should I go ahead and write a bug report?
Should it be stronger than a 'wish-list' category?
Or, should I download the source and play around with the code?
to quote Dr. Who - "Geronimo!"

Suggestions and advice welcome.
Jay

Ageless seems to think it was resizable at one time so maybe he knows why it isn't resizable now. I would wait to hear what he has to say about it before submitting a ticket or code diving.

It was resizable in the past, but that must've been before 6.10 then. Last night I was talking about this with one of the developers, he was also wondering when that window was last resizable.

I do know that in the past it was resizable as then I could do that on my TV system, where the screen resolution couldn't go any bigger than 800x600 on the old videocard. So to be able to get to the OK buttons we would need to resize that window and move it to top of screen then.

I'll ask the developer further about this, and else ask that it be a feature request. However, this will then mean that it will only be available in the newer BOINC Managers. They don't port back that capability. Especially not back to a BOINC that's almost a year and a half old.

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Charlie was working in this area almost two years ago:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/changeset/20727/boinc