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Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome



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On 05/12/08 09:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most

Maybe you're a Starving College Student, or maybe things cost more
in India (tariffs on imported Chinese goods?), but 17" LCD monitors
are pretty darned cheap.  And you should be able to find used CRT
monitors even cheaper.

> apps, very little screen estate is left for the actual stuff and most of
> it is eaten up by the menubars, toolbars, and othe gui elements. I have
> my gnome preferences set to small icons for the toolbars without text.
> 
> Are there any other configuration parameters that can be tweaked in my
> gtkrc (or elsewhere) to reduce/remove the extra space around the toolbar
> icons and make better use of screen space?
> 
> I almost wish the gtk/gnome devs had smaller monitors :-)
> 


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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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