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The file upload browser window is bigger than my screen

jcbradfield
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I'm using Firefox 3.6.12 on an OpenSuse 11.1 system, with fvwm 2.4 as my window manager. When I upload a file via an upload field, as soon as I click in the filename text entry, a file browser pops up, which is larger than my (already large) screen, so I can't see what I'm doing, and just have to type the filename blind. How can I get the file browser to come up at a sensible size, or disable it altogether so that I can just type the file name into the text entry?

I'm using Firefox 3.6.12 on an OpenSuse 11.1 system, with fvwm 2.4 as my window manager. When I upload a file via an upload field, as soon as I click in the filename text entry, a file browser pops up, which is larger than my (already large) screen, so I can't see what I'm doing, and just have to type the filename blind. How can I get the file browser to come up at a sensible size, or disable it altogether so that I can just type the file name into the text entry?

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the-edmeister
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You really should try SUSE support for help with that problem, as it sounds like a problem with the file browser, rather than Firefox. Plus, the version of Firefox you have installed is a modified version, and not an official Mozilla Linux build.

Personally, I am a real noob with Ubuntu, and I don't know of a helper at this forum who uses SUSE, so I'd be surprised if anyone else here would be able to provide an answer.

jcbradfield
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The file browser is a widget within Firefox. And I have the same issue at work under Scientific Linux 5.5, so I don't think it's a Suse problem. More likely it's an interaction with the window manager: fvwm is a classic, ICCCM compliant window manager without any of the modern additions in gnome/kde etc.

cor-el
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Can't you resize that window via the system menu (Alt + Space) or by dragging the window title bar to the left to reach the right border?

jcbradfield
jcbradfield Question owner
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Since the window is larger than the screen, neither the title bar nor the borders are within reach of the mouse. (Nor does Alt+Space mean anything.) I could resize the window by injecting configure events programmatically; but what I'd like is for Firefox (or the underlying widget set) to work.