Applications cut off at bottom

[Ken Knecht <kenk primenet com>]

I just joined this list so forgive me if this question has already been
discussed.

Using either KDE or Gnome, a lot of the applications are cut off 
at the bottom when I run them. My monitor is restricted to 
640x480. For example, I can't run Netscape because I can't get 
at the "Accept" and "Not Accept" buttons on the License screen. 
I can't drag it high enough by the title bar. Same problem with 
many other programs. Is there a way to resize these application 
displays? This is with the Gnome panel at the bottom of 
the screen moved off the edge of the screen.

I had a _great_ deal of difficulty getting X to work on my 
system, and am _very_ reluctant to solve this size problem by 
getting a higher resolution monitor (or is it the video card?) as I'm
afraid X won't work. I currently have to use 

Unsupported VGA compatible video card
Generic 640x480 60 Hz. monitor

This is the only pair of choices that will work with startx. 
Selecting my real video card gets me errors.

Linux distribution is Mandrake 7.0. I just set up the x system 
so am still learning Gnome so I may well be missing 
something obvious.

Any ideas on the display size problem? I'll experiment some more 
with Gnome while I'm waiting for a response here. Maybe I'll 
stumble on the solution.

Ken