Dialog boxes -- Up and Left!!
 

Hey all. I have an issue that I haven't seen posted before....

When booted to my memory card's partition rather than flash, all "pop up" dialog boxes are popping up jammed into the top left corner (far enough that the top border is not visible) rather than centered on the screen. Most of the time it's no big deal to drag the box down and over, or to use it in that position, but I've run into issues where some boxes resize rather than move, so it's nearly impossible to get to the information in the box, much less use it.

I've Fsck'ed the partition, but it didn't seem to help. Any ideas? Is there a setting i bumped... Any cure short of a reformat would be appreciated!!

Re: Dialog boxes -- Up and Left!!
 

If you have qole's debian chroot installed, it installs my mod to enable you to move dialog boxes. this has the side effect mentioned by you. you can move back the old matchbox.defs if you wish.

Re: Dialog boxes -- Up and Left!!
 

Running Qole's Debian chroot, maybe?

It's a Matchbox tweak. It's been discussed a great deal.

Re: Dialog boxes -- Up and Left!!
 

To clarify:

Look in the matchbox/window-manager hack listed in qwerty12's signature above.

Re: Dialog boxes -- Up and Left!!
 

Thanks Guys!! How awesome is this community that I get a definitive answer so quick. (and from such distinguished members) I am running Qole's Debian chroot!!



Nate

Re: Dialog boxes -- Up and Left!!
 

Saw the link in qwerty's sig and am on it.... OK - revealling myself as a total newbie when I ask ... " Now how do I edit the matchbox.defs file. I can get there as per qwerty's instruction, but can't quite figure out how to make my changes stick.

Re: Dialog boxes -- Up and Left!!
 

You'll need to be root in order to edit the file.

Install rootsh, then in xterm you can type

rootsh vi /etc/osso-af-init/matchbox.defs

Re: Dialog boxes -- Up and Left!!
 

CM - thnx - I made it that far. I'm running as root. But my question is more basic than that I guess... OK - so I'm in there... I overtype the text. Then.... How do I save it?

Am I making sense?

Re: Dialog boxes -- Up and Left!!
 

If you are using vi, after making the changes, press Escape and type :wq

Be warned, incorrect changes to that file will result in the tablet not booting.

Re: Dialog boxes -- Up and Left!!
 

if you are "in it" using the vi editor, then

:wq

will save it.

if you were in Insert or Replace mode before that, you'll have to hit [Esc] first, then :wq to "write" and "quit" (if you want to quit without saving, :q! )

Re: Dialog boxes -- Up and Left!!
 

...okay, so the youngster from across the pond can type faster than I can. :P

I was distracted by also watching a Law & Order episode on my tablet at the same time.

;)

Re: Dialog boxes -- Up and Left!!
 

I always found it easier to hit Shift+ZZ (basically two capital Z's) myself... :wq requires too many finger moving :).

Re: Dialog boxes -- Up and Left!!
 

Vim cheatsheet - most of these also apply to Vi.

Re: Dialog boxes -- Up and Left!!
 

Perfect!! Thanks!!