Should have asked about this sooner, as it's something I've seen since the very first F38 upgrade. Not sure if this is Fedora or Thunderbird issue.
When Thunderbird opens, it does so postage-stamp size, way up in upper left hand corner of window, so small I almost missed it at first. Right-clicking "maximize" restores it to full screen display.
On 7/29/23 08:55, Tim Evans wrote:
Should have asked about this sooner, as it's something I've seen since the very first F38 upgrade. Not sure if this is Fedora or Thunderbird issue.
When Thunderbird opens, it does so postage-stamp size, way up in upper left hand corner of window, so small I almost missed it at first. Right-clicking "maximize" restores it to full screen display.
I see this with apps like LibreOffice. I have to click on it several times until I hit it just right to expand the window. I don't have a solution, but if you click on it *just right* you can get the window resize pointer to come up, then resize the window, and future versions will be usable.
Thomas
On 2023-07-30 17:39, Thomas Cameron via users wrote:
On 7/29/23 08:55, Tim Evans wrote:
Should have asked about this sooner, as it's something I've seen since the very first F38 upgrade. Not sure if this is Fedora or Thunderbird issue.
When Thunderbird opens, it does so postage-stamp size, way up in upper left hand corner of window, so small I almost missed it at first. Right-clicking "maximize" restores it to full screen display.
I see this with apps like LibreOffice. I have to click on it several times until I hit it just right to expand the window. I don't have a solution, but if you click on it *just right* you can get the window resize pointer to come up, then resize the window, and future versions will be usable.
You don't mention what GUI is installed. Assuming that you are using the default Wayland and not X, per a recommendation from one of the Fedora people, I installed thunderbird-wayland package and then changed the app startup to use thunderbird-wayland instead of just thunderbird. There is a very long pause before thunderbird comes up, and then it just works. Mention was also made of this fix being merged at a later date.
I have no idea why thunderbird and not thunderbird-wayland is in the software app list. You have to do the install from CLI because of this secondary foulup.
On 7/30/23 22:45, John Mellor wrote:
You don't mention what GUI is installed. Assuming that you are using the default Wayland and not X, per a recommendation from one of the Fedora people, I installed thunderbird-wayland package and then changed the app startup to use thunderbird-wayland instead of just thunderbird. There is a very long pause before thunderbird comes up, and then it just works. Mention was also made of this fix being merged at a later date.
I have no idea why thunderbird and not thunderbird-wayland is in the software app list. You have to do the install from CLI because of this secondary foulup.
Using Gnome. As suggested by a couple of folks, there is enough of a corner of the "postage stamp" that I can grab it and drag the window larger. Having done so, and closing Thunderbird, it re-opens at the re-sized condition--EXCEPT that it doesn't re-open Maximized when it was closed while Maximized; that still requires the extra right click in the top border. Good enough.
Just odd this surfaced with my first log in after F37-F38 upgrade.
Thanks, all.
On 7/30/23 21:45, John Mellor wrote:
On 2023-07-30 17:39, Thomas Cameron via users wrote:
On 7/29/23 08:55, Tim Evans wrote:
Should have asked about this sooner, as it's something I've seen since the very first F38 upgrade. Not sure if this is Fedora or Thunderbird issue.
When Thunderbird opens, it does so postage-stamp size, way up in upper left hand corner of window, so small I almost missed it at first. Right-clicking "maximize" restores it to full screen display.
I see this with apps like LibreOffice. I have to click on it several times until I hit it just right to expand the window. I don't have a solution, but if you click on it *just right* you can get the window resize pointer to come up, then resize the window, and future versions will be usable.
You don't mention what GUI is installed. Assuming that you are using the default Wayland and not X, per a recommendation from one of the Fedora people, I installed thunderbird-wayland package and then changed the app startup to use thunderbird-wayland instead of just thunderbird. There is a very long pause before thunderbird comes up, and then it just works. Mention was also made of this fix being merged at a later date.
I have no idea why thunderbird and not thunderbird-wayland is in the software app list. You have to do the install from CLI because of this secondary foulup.
I apologize, I should have been more clear. In my case, I use Xfce. I am not using Wayland, I am using plain old X11:
[thomas.cameron@case Desktop]$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE x11
I have to use the NVidia drivers, so I've shied away from Wayland.
Thomas
On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 9:56 AM Tim Evans tkevans@tkevans.com wrote:
Should have asked about this sooner, as it's something I've seen since the very first F38 upgrade. Not sure if this is Fedora or Thunderbird issue.
When Thunderbird opens, it does so postage-stamp size, way up in upper left hand corner of window, so small I almost missed it at first. Right-clicking "maximize" restores it to full screen display.
You didn't say which desktop environment you're using. If you're using kde, you can set properties on the app to start maximized. On other desktop environments there's probably a similar setting, but I don't know it.
On 07/30/2023 04:06 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
You didn't say which desktop environment you're using. If you're using kde, you can set properties on the app to start maximized. On other desktop environments there's probably a similar setting, but I don't know it.
On Xfce it will start the same way it was when it was last closed, although not, generally, in the same position unless it was maximized.
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 6:07 PM Neal Becker ndbecker2@gmail.com wrote:
You didn't say which desktop environment you're using. If you're using kde, you can set properties on the app to start maximized. On other desktop environments there's probably a similar setting, but I don't know it.
Inkscape likes to start maximized for me. Rather annoying since I have a 27" 2560x1600 monitor, and while the app window takes the whole screen, the "page" is slightly taller than my thumb.
On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 09:55:48 -0400 Tim Evans tkevans@tkevans.com wrote:
Should have asked about this sooner, as it's something I've seen since the very first F38 upgrade. Not sure if this is Fedora or Thunderbird issue.
When Thunderbird opens, it does so postage-stamp size, way up in upper left hand corner of window, so small I almost missed it at first. Right-clicking "maximize" restores it to full screen display.
I don't know if this will work in wayland, but in X (in LXDE and LXQT), if a window is in focus, hitting F11 makes it full size.
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