Dash does not fit on lower resolution monitors

[CassieMoondust]

I have a netbook (Asus eeePC 701 4G with a 7" display and a resolution of 800x480 pixel).

The Dash does not fit on the screen. It is simply too big, impossible to reach the right side of it, horizontal scrolling is not supported, ALT + left mousebutton also does not work, inconsistent to all other gnome apps.

It should be easy to calculate the size of the icons, and its position relative to the screen-size, this should not be too difficult and this is nothing new. (With compiz this should be an easy task)

In the past Unity has been designed for small netbooks and the global menu saves space, yes, good thing, but if i cannot use Unity on nebooks, cause the dash ist too big this is a bit frustrating, because theese small machines are not too slowly. It is only the size of the dash what makes trouble! All the other things works perfect...

Please think about this. This is a great regression for me against the old Ubuntu-Netbook-Edition.

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to make Ubuntu better. However can you post a picture of your problem? Because Unity dash is supposed to go full screen for netbooks with low resolutions and you should be able to access all the sides of it.

[CassieMoondust (cassie-lx)]

Yes, i have taken two photos. The first one with Unity3D, which does not fit.
And surprisingly, somewhat cool for me, Unity2D, which fits perfect now!

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

Thank you for the screenshots. It helps better understand the problem. Can you also include which version of unity and compiz you are running. You can do this by typing "unity --version" and "compiz --version" in the terminal to find out the version numbers. Meanwhile I am marking this bug confirmed.

[CassieMoondust (cassie-lx)]

I'm running unity 5.8.0 and compiz 0.9.7.4 with ubuntu 12.04 beta2. This issue is in Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 4.28.0), also.

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

As part of the big bug clear up for 16.04 we have reviewed this bug and we will not be working on it in the near future. Sorry we can't offer you a fix. We will of course review patches if anyone submits them. Please stop by IRC to discuss this option.