Sorry, I know about 800x600, but on mine I can still move a window up partly off the screen and expand the window down. But, I just set my screen to 800x600 and the preferences fit in comfortably... all the room to move (John Mayall)... it was an old compliant v.v. the Simple View.

If you look in landolini's screenshot you see that the last line / box is partly obscured, but I think it too hmmm there's no hint of a drag-triangle in any version of BOINC seen so far. If you hover the mouse on the right hand bottom corner the mouse changes too indicating the frame can be enlarged.

Just me, not getting what others are not getting

landolini, can you tell us, link preferred, where you were told this is not possible. Can any other linux user please confirm.

thanks.

I'm baffled. I've done this drag/expand in Linux too some time ago.

landolini is right, this can be a real blocking problem under Linux, depending on the monitor size and the used screen resolution. With a 19" screen the 1024x768 resolution does not show the whole window but there is still enough room on the screen for moving and enlarging it. But in 800x600 on the same 19" display the preferences window is using the whole space and it cannot be either moved upwards or enlarged.

I don't know why these windows are not set with the necessary scroll bars which would definitely and reasonably fix this problem.

Cheers. Jean.

landolini,
If your screen size is too small and/or if you cannot use a higher screen resolution another way to avoid your problem is to reduce the size of the fonts at system level. If your eyes allow it, obviously.

For example when my 19" screen is set in 800x600 resolution changing the fonts size from the default 10 to 8 does the trick.

Cheers. Jean.