Viewing events in month view

Question

Here's the thing: I often have multiple events/appointments on any given day, and what I find frustrating is that I can't see all of them in Month view (which I use most of the time).
When iCal decides there is too much info on a certain day, it puts three "periods" across the top of that day's box. This is aggravating for several reasons, 1) I can't see what the missing events are w/o changing to week or day views, 2) the periods are all too easy to miss, being small and out of the way and 3) perhaps most upsetting is the fact that iCal seems to do this arbitrarily.
Some days will show as many as four items, while others will only show two before giving up and hiding my info with the periods.
Question: Can this be altered in some way? Is there a setting or a work around? I like to use iCal, but I am a Month view kind of guy. If I can't fix this I'll have to look into other software, and I hate to do that.
Thanks for any tips or info.

Answer 1

The only way I know of controlling it is to make the iCal window bigger. I don't like this as it takes up too much screen space, but when I look at month view if I see a bunch of dots I try dragging out the window. I think vertical space is more important than horizontal. I don't know of any terminal tricks to control it. You could open up iCal's property list (in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.plist) in the property list editor and see if there is anything obvious, but I don't recall seeing anything. If you are going to experiment with the property list do it with iCal off and make a backup copy.
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