GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 782169
Gnome display on lower resolution screens like 15 inches in a VMware virtual machine is big problem
Last modified: 2017-05-04 22:16:06 UTC
Created attachment 351071 [details] Gnome's Windows size Hello I can show you screenshots about this problem I can tell you in Activities i have no wy to see the full name of an applicaion. I see only the first letters followed by points ... In Nautilus, a terminal, or any other application i see a few of the Windows cotent. The tittlebar, tabs, etc take to much place on the screen. I have tried Openbox which is better about that for example But i am a a keyboard user, i run my applications with the keyboard ie i press the Superkey, PID : Pidgin is running. That's all. It takes less time to do Something wih Gnome than searching in menus... Conclusion : i love Gnome Except for this low screen resolution problem. xample : I can not use your Norton Commander clone : the Window use half the sceeen My English is not fine (french speaking), i hope you understand something Regards Thnak you for looking at this Allain
(In reply to Allain from comment #0) > I can tell you in Activities i have no wy to see the full name of an > applicaion. I see only the first letters followed by points ... See bug 663725 > In Nautilus, a terminal, or any other application i see a few of the Windows > cotent. The tittlebar, tabs, etc take to much place on the screen. To be fair, you are using an extremely old version - window decorations without custom widgets are significantly smaller nowadays (I'm afraid those decorations are relatively rare in core GNOME apps nowadays, so https://gnome.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/gimp-420x236.png was the only screenshot I could find off-hand). In any case, decorations are defined by the GTK+ theme, so if you are still unhappy with the latest Adwaita theme, please file a separate bug there. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 663725 ***
I will be okay with this You saw the screenshots I use Debian 8.6 alias Jessie and installed the package "Gnome 3.14 ?" from the stable version I get the same problem with Debian Strech alias testing What must i do ? Regards
My resolution is 1366*758 on a 15 inches screen in a VMware Workstation window. And what about the higher you saw in red on the sreenshots ?
GNOME 3.14 is two and a half years old by now (or five stable GNOME releases), and hasn't been supported upstream for two years. (In reply to Allain from comment #3) > And what about the higher you saw in red on the sreenshots ? If you think the default GTK theme adds too much whitespace, use a more compact one. gnome-shell has nothing to do with window contents, and recent versions pick up window decorations from the GTK theme.