Zorin 9 Core 32bit

I have installed the above on my 15.6" laptop, and it seems to run OK, however I am unable to reduce the size of the boxes say the "Appearance" box or any others. Also on my home page the headers and taskbars are all to big. I have been able to reduce the icons at the bottom of the screen but that is all.
Can anyone help please.

Hi can you provide us with more information please? Processor, RAM, Graphics chip, make and model of your notebook and if dual-booting or is Zorin OS the only sytem installed?

Hi,
Yes it is a Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo V553532 bit SP2 (had Vista Home Basic) 15.4" WXGA 1280x800 Intel Celeron CPU 570@2.26GHz, 1.0Gb RAM, 160Gb HDD, 1.0Mb L2cache, SIS Mirage3+ Graphics.
When I go into Appearance box it says the current background is 1920x1080 but in Systems Settings box the resolution is 640x480 (4:3). Again all these boxes are far too big for the screen and I am struggling to find where to adjust this.
On my pc I have Zorin 7 and do not have this problem.
Thanks in the hope you might be able to help me.

I think the size shown in 'Appearance' is just the size of the background image. Can you adjust the screen resolution in the 'Screen Display' section of System Settings?

Hi,
I gave you the wrong info on graphics it is

Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM3.4, 128 bits)

Sorry about that.

Hi Steve D
Can't adjust the screen size in "Screen Display" , will not allow me.

Hi take a look here - do so AT YOUR OWN RISK!

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2164588

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-instal ... lucid.html

Hi Swarfendor,
Had a look at the above sites but nothing that I could see that helping. Everything that I open up is far too large even when I reduce the page down to 50% the headers aanre still too large and I have to grabbing the page and moving back and forward to see everything.
There must be something I have not tried!
Regards

Hi, ok, when Zorin boots up again, press the 'Tab' key or the 'E' key for editing the bootsplash when GRUB shows up and enter 'nomodeset, acpi=off' and see if that makes any difference.

Hi Swarfendor,
I got this to work the first timenomodeset,acpi but when I rebooted it reverted to large size.
I have been pressing E to begin and get the GRUB page it says use F2 to enter a command which I did , pressed F10 to reboot. Now doing this again I cannot grt it to reduce the sizes.
Am I missing something here or not entering the command in the right place.
Sorry to a bit of pain.

Hi just done some searching and found this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/printthread.php?t=1613132&pp=75

Let us know if it helps!

Hi Swarfendor,

Thanks for your help.
The last info did help in that the "nomodeset" could have dire consequences.
I have now sucessfully installed Linux Mint 17 MATE Qiana 32 bit and this is working great.
I am beginning nto wonder if the disk for the Zorin which I bought from e-bay was in fact faulty or corrupt.
Anyway I am now up and running on the laptop.
Thanks again for your help.

Hi, you should never buy any Zorin disk off e-Bay - they will be fake - the Zorin brothers have been trying to put a stop to this sham/scam!

Either buy directly from Zorin themselves, or download the bonafide images from here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/zorin-os/files/9/