Screeen dimensions / resolution issue

Ben Carver
Just upgraded to Firefox 4 and finding that although this looks great on my newish laptop (widescreen), there is a problem having zotero open on my 2nd screen moniter (resolution 1024 x 768): as soon as I open zotero on the moniter I lose the right hand edge off-screen and no adjustment of the pane size (ie not full screen) can remedy this.

Is my old moniter 'obsolete'?
  • dstillman
    Pretty much.

    But you should be able to adjust the panes down such that the only things that are cut off are the tab mode toggle and the close button, both of which have keyboard alternatives. You can also close the left pane, which will at least let you read more of the middle pane.
  • dstillman
    Wait, I was thinking 768 horizontal for some reason. There shouldn't be any trouble at all getting Zotero to fit in 1024 horizontal pixels. If pane resizing doesn't seem to be working properly, you can try clearing localstore.rdf, which stores window settings, from your Firefox profile, and restarting Firefox.

    If that doesn't help, take a screenshot, post it somewhere, and provide a link here.
  • Ben Carver
    Deleted the localstore.rdf file and that partially solved the problem: wiith the left pane hidden the zotero pane now fits on the screen - thanks for the advice. It doesn't quite fit with the left panel, but I can live with that until I get a new monitor.
  • dstillman
    A screenshot (posted to imageshack.us or similar) may still be helpful—you should definitely be able to fit the full pane within 1024 pixels.
  • Ben Carver
    Ok here are 3 pics:
    The 1st is before I cleared the localstore.rdf...: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B-DTzRetdtnmOWI1NGM3YjMtMDY0MC00ODlmLWE0NGItN2U5ZTQ0MmZlMTQ1&hl=en&authkey=CMOUgNoD

    The 2nd is is after – you see the zotero refresh icon is now partially visible: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B-DTzRetdtnmMWNjOTkzNzMtOWYyYi00MDljLWI4YWMtZjJiYzVlMDdjMjE5&authkey=CO_IvKED&hl=en

    The 3rd shows how now when I collapse the left panel zotero fits: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B-DTzRetdtnmODIwZTc2ZDEtNjM2OC00ZTRhLTkxYjUtOWEyYzIwY2VlNTAw&hl=en&authkey=CMqf_6kC
  • dstillman
    That third pane is way too large. By default, it shouldn't extend much beyond the note editor icons. Resize it down. If you can't, you have some extremely long value in some item that's messing up the normal resizing ability.
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