many problems solved - screen question

[Cynthia Croy]

  I want to thank everyone for their replies to my questions. I had 
thought that the installer's disk formatting would overwrite any Linux 
partitions created by Apple's drive setup. Evidently there was enough of 
Apple's swap partition settings left to confuse Linux, so when I 
reformatted the drive in Apple's setup and then formatted the Linux 
partitions from free space when in the installer, everything installed 
correctly. KDE was the default as expected, the swap partition mounted 
successfully, and I can move and resize my windows. It's amazing what a 
difference a swap partition makes. So, I thought I would let everyone 
else know in case anyone else is having problems for the same reason. 
Also, I apologize for wasting anyone's time.

I have another quesiton now. Text, icons, everything seem much larger 
than they need to be - the toolbar for "send" "address" "attach" and 
"save" is 7/8" high. How do I make it smaller? I have the screen 
resolution in Linux set the same as in MacOS, but MacOS seems to use the 
space much more efficiently. I've changed the resolution up and down in 
Xconfigurator, and nothing on the desktop changes. I've looked through 
all the selections in the control centers for KDE and Gnome and the 
selections in preferences menu item for Nautilus and Mozilla. I've been 
unable to find something that says "make everything smaller overall." It 
seems there must be a way to do this, but I have been unable to find it.

Thanks,

Cindy