Neil,
Holding Alt and dragging the window does not work for "subwindows."
Regardless of where you put the mouse pointer within the program
window, it only drags the main window (the whole program) around the
computer screen. It will not move a "subwindow" around within the
main program window. I have tried this and many other variations to
move a "subwindow," but this has no effect (don't know if
"subwindow" is the right term--I mean within Bibledit you have a
pane in which you edit, and optional other panes which give
references, etc. if you display them--these are what I am calling
"subwindows").
These panes (or subwindows?) can be moved independently within the
main program window: they each have their own "title bar" which can
unfortunately be "grabbed" by the mouse pointer and dragged "up" and
*behind* the main Bibledit toolbar at the top. If you do this and
then "let go" of the subwindow's title bar while the title bar is
not visible, there appears to be no way to get the subwindow back to
its original place apart from editing the configuration file, which
is not practical for ordinary users. As such this problem is
something which needs to be changed in Bibledit.
Tues has also suggested that if the screen resolution were changed,
that would force the subwindows to resize. I haven't tried this,
but again this is not practical for "ordinary" users. (While this
is my first experience with Linux, I do have fairly extensive
computer proficiency. I have been actively using Bibledit 4.0, from
the Lucid BALSA distribution, for less than a week.)
Paul Schaefer
Ghana
On 2/2/2011 4:59 AM, Neil Mayhew wrote:
Hi Paul,
Another possibility is to hold down Alt and drag the window. This
has
the same effect as dragging the title bar, but can be done by
clicking
in any part of the window.
It's possible this has been set to a different key combination on
your
system, but on a stock Balsa system it's Alt-Button1.
--Neil
On 2011-02-01 04:35, Paul-Jennifer_Schaefer wrote:
Alexander Vinokurov's solution below:
------ Original Message --------
Paul,
I found out how to restore the position. Open in any text editor the following file:
~/.bibledit/configuration/configuration.1.xml (here the tilde stands for your home directory; you can type the name of your text editor and then that path. For example, in Ubuntu with its 'gedit' text editor it will be like this:
gedit ~/.bibledit/configuration/configuration.1.xml)
Then search for (in gedit you press CTR+F) the line 'window-y-positions' (without quotes and make sure the 'positions' is plural because there is another instance of 'window-y-position' which does something different). You will get something like this:
<window-y-positions>
<value>0</value>
<value>-17</value>
<value>0</value>
</window-y-positions>
Change the middle value into '0' (zero) and save the file. If your text editor can show line numbers it should be the line 101. At least it is so in my case. Here I put '-17' but you may have another value. But minus means that the titlebar is too high and perhaps hidden. If you have positive value it means that the bar is too low. So zero is just on.
I assume that Bibledit is off when doing that.
On 2/1/2011 11:31 AM, Kim Blewett wrote:
Hi
Paul,
I did this too on Bibledit, a year ago; I'm trying to remember
what I
did to solve it. It still is a problem in BE-GTK v 4.1; I've
just got
myself into the same bind.
Here's one suggestion: Copy your hidden project to a new
project (File
- Project - Copy to). Then you can delete the original, hidden
project.
I agree that this is a problem that needs a solution! I'm
copying the
bibledit newsgroup on this message; any other ideas out there?
Kim
On 01/02/11 20:35, Paul-Jennifer_Schaefer wrote:
Lucid on EEEpc, Balsa is good but
working
under Linux has a lot of hidden challenges because it is so
different
from Windows (in the nuts-and-bolts). My main problem at
present is
that I have moved the subwindow in Bibledit (the one where
you type in
scripture) so that its title bar is hidden underneath the
general
toolbar of Bibledit, and there appears to be no way to get
the title
bar back down. Since the subwindow also moved to the left
when this
happened, I cannot see the first several cm of text on each
line. Thus
I am effectively prevented from using Bibledit at all.
(Someone who also uses Bibledit though not BALSA has given
me a
technical solution which involves editing some kind of
control file.
I'm sure I can follow the directions, but this would not be
a
reasonable option for the target BALSA user.)
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