A lot of the time when I go to buy a ship, the little GUI window that lists all the available ships starts off scrolled all the way to the right so I can only see the last few letters of each ships name.

(Sorry for no screenshot and general lack of details; I'll add them soon, but hopefully some other players can corroborate or supplement this in the meantime.)

I've noticed that too.

I thought some plugin was doing this but haven't had a chance to determine which one. Maybe I'll try that today.

I've been seeing this behavior as well for a few weeks. Linux client, if that matters. Haven't tried without plugins though.

The ShipLoadoutsManager plugin is the culprit on this one. There must have been a recent change to the interface because I've only noticed this recently.

Here's a quick fix to address the problem. It moves the "Open SLM" button above the "Purchase Selected" button instead of to the right of it (located on to the Purchase Ship tab). I've tested the fix at a number of different resolutions, and it seems to be okay. Let me know if there are still any problems.

ShipLoadoutsManager v1.0.5

I don't run SLM..

I don't run SLM either.

Let's be comparing apples to apples here. For people not running SLM, name a station that you've seen this problem manifest at (might only be happening when there's a ship in the list with a long name). And what's your game resolution? Try uninstalling all plugins and see if the problem persists.

I found the problem to be very repeatable:
with SLM v1.0.4 installed -> problem present
uninstall all plugins, reload interface -> problem not present
re-install only SLM v1.0.4, reload interface -> problem present
replace SLM v1.0.4 with v1.0.5, reload interface -> problem not present

I'm guessing there's another plugin out there that's also causing this problem. Probably one that adds controls to the station interface screen that are visible while the Buy Ship tab is opened. I've been unable to reproduce the issue after upgrading to SLM v1.0.5.