# How to get rid of Long Dialogue window

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-rid-of-long-dialogue-window/17765
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [October 14, 2026, 10:52pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-rid-of-long-dialogue-window/17765 "2026-10-14T22:52:14Z")
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### Author: ![pfahd](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/pfahd/32/17942_2.png) [@pfahd](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/pfahd)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2026, 10:52pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-rid-of-long-dialogue-window/17765/1 "2026-10-14T22:52:14Z")

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I use ParaView6.2.0 on RedHat-9,  
And using the binary release version of the software.  
When I open “File-\>Open”, a long window opens - which I have to draf towards left utill I can see the button to click.

I thought it was some bug in the early release, so waited for final release - but I still have the problem. See a screenshot below.

 ![paraview-longWindow](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/3X/3/c/3cb8aa6a3baf4df69966df942b00c50ab5a6b012.png)

I have tried not using the dark theme, but it doesn’t solve problem. This does not exist for older version(5.11.1) I have installed from my institute’s DNF repository.

- Is this because downloading binary is not the way to use ParaView, but better build it myself on my system?
- I had tried building it locally, but I sticked to binary version as it gave me less issues 😮

Any help to solve this will be appreciated, otherwise it is so annoying.

Thanks in advance,  
Fahad.

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2026, 7:32am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-rid-of-long-dialogue-window/17765/2 "2026-10-15T07:32:23Z")

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Edit → Settings → Reset settings to default

This shoudl fix it.