that the NEURON Main Menu toolbar is alarmingly big, and the RunControl panel covers
up a huge chunk of your screen.
This happens a lot with laptop computers. The fix is simple: just tell NEURON to use a
smaller font, or, if you're using MSWin, you might try a different mswin_scale factor.
How?
NEURON has a configuration file that specifies many properties, including important
attributes of the GUI such as font size. Under MSWin this file is called
c:\nrnxx\lib\nrn.def
and under UNIX/Linux it's
/usr/local/nrn/share/nrn/lib/nrn.defaults
(or just
nrn/share/nrn/lib/nrn.defaults
if you installed into your home directory).
Inside this file you'll find
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*mswin_scale: 1.2
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*mswin_scale: 1.5
windows can fit on your screen.
An alternative is to change the font size. For MSWin, the default is
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*font: *Arial*bold*--12*
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*font: *Arial*bold*--10*
i.e. they should read
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*MenuBar*font: *Arial*bold*--10*
*MenuItem*font: *Arial*bold*--10*
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*font: *helvetica-medium-r-normal*--14*
MenuItem fonts.
NEURON's configuration file contains many other settings that can be used to
customize the appearance of NEURON--see
How do I change the background color used in NEURON's shape plots and other graphs?
and
How do I change the color scale used in shape plots?
in NEURON's FAQ list
http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/faq/general-questions