Re: Re: Graphic resizing problem Linux notebook
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- Subject: [mg54760] Re: [mg54744] Re: Graphic resizing problem Linux notebook
- From: jmt <jmt at dxdydz.net>
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 01:58:15 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: dxdydz
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If you are using KDE, you might try to suspend the KDE "Klipper", because it
interfers with the mathematica FrontEnd.
On Monday 28 February 2005 09:28, D Herring wrote:
> > When I click on a graphic such as a plot output, Mathematica should
> > highlight the graphic with a bounding box, and supply anchors with which
> > to resize the graphic.
> >
> > The box and anchors should remain *indefinitely* until I click somewhere
> > else to signify that I'm done.
> >
> > Instead, the selected state of the graphic disappears in about 2
> > seconds, so it is too quick to get a hold of one of the anchors to
> > resize.
> >
> > Has anyone else noticed this sort of behavior?
>
> Exact same problem here. Except my selected state disappears in half a
> second. The motion required to grab it is almost a double-click.
>
> > Any ideas how to fix?
>
> My first fix was to change the default ImageSize to something larger.
> I think the required fix was at Edit->Preferences->Graphics
> options->Image bounding box->Image size.
>
> When I need a different plot size, I usually pass an explicit ImageSize
> to my plotting functions. e.g. Plot[Sin[x],{x,0,10},ImageSize->400]
>
> Later,
> Daniel
>
> Running Mathematica 5.1 for Linux (October 25, 2004) on Slackware-latest