ACL, ls, "permission denied" and a lot of questionmarks

Question

I tested my application in another mobile phone , a htc mobile phone , and it has a very large screen size. So I was very surprised when I saw the arrangement of the components ! Here is the captured image of the screen from the camera of another phone :

So how to make the components be sized and placed well according to the screen display size of any device ?

Solution

The /home/alice/ directory needs executable access for the user accessing it.

EDIT: BTW, the question marks are there to indicate that ls can't get the permissions on the file.

Comments

[Frederik Deweerdt]

Doesn't the directory (/home/alice) need executable access?

[user3908406]

That solves it. So it looks like ls needs x permissions read the directory content. Probably makes sense. Thanks (Post it as the answer so i can accept it.)

[slm]

In order to see the contents of a directory, a user needs x permissions.

[Shai Almog]

Correct, he also used setPreferredSize to a hardcoded value which obviously forces LWUIT to ignore automatic layout. I suggest using the GUI builder and going over the many samples, the GUI builder samples really help with visualizing layout management for multiple resolutions.