Bug 714918

Summary:	can't stack three x-terms & panel on 1050p display
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	joern
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	joern, maxamillion, otaylor, pertusus, samkraju, walters
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Description joern 2011-06-21 10:25:50 UTC

Description of problem:
With previous releases of Fedora, a 1050p display (like 1400x1050 or 1680x1050)
is sufficient to stack a slim control panel and three xterms (with standard 24
lines * 80 characters size and default font) vertically, with all four (or
actually 7 or 10 if you count all xterms that go side-by-side) fully usable.
With fedora 15, the title bar on top of the xterm is too fat, and with
3d-effects there is also a shadow that reduces legibility of the 'lower'
windows (and the what is on top is not really a proper control panel).
Without 3d-effects, there is an additional strip at the bottom which is not
available for applications.  Either way, you effectively use one third of
usable screen real estate on each virtual desktop.  This is made worse by and
is making worse the general problem with having & switching between multiple
virtual desktops with the new shell.
 


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Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2011-06-21 10:36:45 UTC

Which desktop environment or window manager do you use?

Comment 2 joern 2011-06-21 10:50:52 UTC

I have been using the Gnome shell that came by default with the Fedora 15
'Graphical desktop' installation.
Is there a way to switch to something else using Fedora 15, short of
downloading Fedora 14 or fvwm sources, and configuring and installing all by
hand?

I'm currently installing Fedora 14.

Comment 3 Miroslav Lichvar 2011-06-21 11:06:06 UTC

Ok, reassigning to gnome-shell.

You can switch to another desktop, like KDE, XFCE or LXDE.

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