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

[Duncan]

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...

> 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'/>

There's no indication that you tried this.  I assumed it was more of a 
hassle and you didn't want to try it, but given your mention (in a new 
thread) of not finding an answer to this yet several months later, I said 
I'd take another look at this thread, and this seems to be what you hadn't 
tried yet, so...

(There was a bug back in the gtk2 era where after certain updates, never 
traced it down to a specific package but..., pan would only show the last 
column, score in my setup, taking the entire header pane.  All the other 
columns would be zero-width, with the dividers piled up on top of each 
other.  After the second time or so I decided editing the file was easier 
than the GUI method.  Another time or two and I created patch-files to 
edit the file and setup a script to attempt to apply them on every pan 
start, so if I saw only the score column all I had to do was restart pan 
and the patch files would apply before pan started, bringing everything 
back to normal.  So yeah, I have some experience editing the prefs file to 
get the header columns back to sanity.)

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