installer window too big for some screens

[Daniel L. Wang]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

This happens during the installation of Xubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 Herd 5.

Description: The installer window has a minimum size (won't resize any smaller) that is too big for my laptop with a 1024x768 display. In xubuntu, this means that the installer's cancel/back/next buttons are off-screen. Perhaps the install program doesn't adjust its minimum size to adjust for top/bottom panel encroachments on screen real estate.

Steps:
1. Boot with xubuntu-feisty-desktop-i386.
2. Wait for xfce to finish starting.
3. Double-click on "Install"
4. Smile at welcome screen, but remain befuddled because there are no buttons to click in the window.

Workaround:
I moved all the panel applets to a single panel along the left side (right side probably also okay). The installer window barely fits in the remaining space. A novice user might be lost and frustrated, but perhaps xubuntu does not target such users. Does this problem appear in ubuntu/kubuntu?

[Daniel L. Wang (wangd)]

Sorry, the bug is actually xorg related. I noticed that xorg detects the lcd panel size as 1024x768, but uses 800x600, refusing to try 1024x768 because of 'bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan'. I suppose installer functionality at 800x600 is not important. I'll try to close/withdraw this bug.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 38442.

[Joe Bruin (jbruin)]

On Ubuntu (gnome) install on my 1024x768 desktop, the buttons of the installer window are just barely reachable after making the top and bottom taskbars auto-hide. This would be easily correctable by allowing resizing of the installer window to a smaller size, so I can resize it to see the "Next" and "Back" buttons. This is not an Xorg issue, the screen resolution is correctly recognized (this is a very small laptop).

[whirren (adam-lidvik)]

But make the window resizeable, please. Regardless if the screen resolution is correct or not you might stop a newbie from installing it at all..

[michaelrynn (michaelrynn)]

As to the effect of the bug, with a NVIDIA Gforce 5 chip, I was also unable to see the buttons. Fiddling the window applets at 800x600 and bottom panel bar wasn't enough. I decided that the User interface had been done sufficiently unprofessionally, that I would abandon using Ubuntu distribution. If you cannot get the install interface right, then what good is the rest of the distribution going to be? I then downloaded a Debian amd64 etch install and used its non-graphical install interface.

[[e-mail] (bullittube)]

plz help me i won't to install ubuntu on my PS3 but the installer window won't fit on the screen so i can't i have deleted the bar things but i still can't see the buttons