Bottom status lines and "OK" and "Cancel" buttons not visible

[Steve Sauls]

When configuring your settings you can not see the "OK" and "CANCEL" buttons unless you have the windows maximized. I spent hours trying to figure out why my settings were not being saved.

Also, unless you have the main window maximized you can not see the status line at the bottom to see what is happening when checking for new mail.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
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[Steve Sauls (stevesauls-o)]

Just for clarification. Even if you move the window as high as you can get it you still can not see the bottom on the window. It HAS to be maximized or you have to resize the window from the top to see the bottom lines. But by default you will look for hours trying to figure out why your settings are not saved not realizing there is an OK button at the bottom.

I say this because in Linux / Unix type systems it is sometimes not necessary to press OK to save settings.

[Steve Sauls (stevesauls-o)]

I just noticed that when my automated backup popped up to run and prompt me for the password that the window positioned itself where the OK / CANCEL buttons were hidden in the bottom of my screen. So, this is not isolated to Thunderbird. It has to do with Gnome / Unity.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal) reached end-of-life on May 16, 2014.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported using a currently supported version of Ubuntu and Thunderbird? Please let us know if you do and in which version of Ubuntu otherwise this report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for thunderbird (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]