Why are my file selection dialogs so big? How do I make them smaller?

Posted by Amanda on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Amanda
Published on 2012-01-17T23:40:23Z Indexed on 2012/09/18 21:53 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 252

Filed under:
|
|

When I use an external monitor, my file selection dialog boxes seem to be huge -- wider than my larger screen. I assume it is a nautilus issue since it happens whether I'm trying to open a file to upload (in firefox) or attach (in thunderbird) or just open it in LibreOffice. See screenshot:

Screenshot

The browser window fills my left-hand monitor, the "open" dialog is wider than one screen, and wider than the window that spawned it. It's huge. It didn't used to be huge.

Is there some way to force dialog windows to be smaller by default? Whenever I try to open/attach/upload a file I have to re-size the finder dialog before I can see what I'm looking at. I don't understand why it is defaulting to such a huge window.

© Ask Ubuntu or respective owner

Related posts about nautilus

Related posts about multiple-monitors