It's an 11 years old Toshiba Satellite with screen 1024x748. With Vector I didn't have that problem although based on the same foundation ?

I'm stuck with that eternal problem on my prehistoric laptop = 800 x 600 resolution screen. Strange because I only have this problem with Debian-based distro's ...

I just installed Salix 13.37 LXDE on my 750 MHz/128 RAM laptop and it works fine