Re: [Pan-users] can't move anything

[David Chmelik]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 23:52:29 -0000 (UTC), Duncan wrote:
> Duncan posted on Mon, 28 Aug 2023 12:06:32 -0000 (UTC) as excerpted:
>> David Chmelik posted on Sun, 27 Aug 2023 14:43:08 -0700 as excerpted:
>>> On 8/27/23 8:22 AM, Dominique Dumont wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, 24 August 2023 04:07:02 CEST David Chmelik wrote:
>>>>> pan 0.154 I can't move anything: headers, sides of pane, etc.
> 
>>>> Headers columns width can be adjusted by dragging the tiny vertical
>>>> line between header names. [...]
> 
>>> No they can't: no longer works, and neither does increasing the
>>> length of the groups pane.
>> 
>> Just to be sure, you must drag the lines in the top labels column
>> (where it says subject, author...), not lower in the actual listings
>> (where each message is listed).
>> 
>> It still works for me, running pan built from git, updated last night.
>  
> Not sure why that GUI method isn't working for you, but...

I don't use git but still can't move anything in last few/couple stable 
pan versions (0.154, 0.155, ...) even after deleting preferences.xml 
(could move everything in all previous pan versions for 10+ years).
 
>> The other alternative is to manually edit the preferences.xml file (in
>> ~/.pan2, with pan closed of course).  Make a backup of the file before
>> you edit it just in case you screw up the edit, then open it in a text
>> editor and look for lines like the following (where you replace date
>> with whatever column name you want to change and nnn is the width in
>> pixels, that being the number you'd change):
>> 
>> <int name='header-pane-date-column-width' value='nnn'/>
 
I'm talking about panes and headers.  Headers aren't so important I'd edit 
a file to set, but since earlier this year I can no longer increase groups 
pane to see longer names, and no longer decrease message pane to see more 
article lines.  Since happened on a few stable versions, maybe GTK broke.