[Xastir] Unuseable tiny dialog boxes on Aspire One under Ubuntu 8.04

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Keith Williamson wrote:

> Hello to the list! I'm new to xastir but am loving what I see so far (or can
> see). I've searched back through the list archives, READMEs, FAQ, etc but
> don't know if I missed a workaround for this or not. I started by just
> installing xastir 1.90 binary from the Ubuntu repos but immediately ran into
> a problem with some of the menu dialogs. The dialog opens as a tiny
> bullet-shaped window with no handles to enlarge and right-click only allows
> me to close, move, etc but not resize or maximize.

Do a Google search through the Xastir list archives looking for
"cigar" or "cigar-shaped".

As I recall this was a window manager setting having to do with
special effects or something (compiz perhaps?) that had to be
switched off.  I don't run those window managers so don't run into
that problem.  I believe other Motif-based programs have similar
problems with that window manager setting.

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