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Plugging in a second monitor makes windows go behind my panel. How do I debug this?

On my main screen only, I have an Xfce panel (i.e. my taskbar) at the top of my screen. When I plug in my second monitor, my windows resize and have their tops go behind the panel. This persists until ...
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"No space left" error installing Gitlab in Ubuntu Server

I'm trying to install gitlab in Ubuntu Server. This server has been created in VirtualBox, at the beginning it only had 10GB abailable, but after getting this error I resized the memory up to 25 GB. ...
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How to resize multiple videos inside nested folders using ffmpeg?

I'm trying to resize a bunch of videos down to a minimum width or height, depending on their aspect orientation, so if a video is 1920x1080 I want it scaled down to 960x540, but if it's 1080x1920 then ...
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How to tell Outlook not to auto resize the columns of a table

I'm having a very frustrating experience with MS-Outlook, while creating a table inside an e-mail: I have some text, separated by pipe characters, and I've chosen the "Convert text to table" ...
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Irfanview: batch conversion systematically resizing

I've just installed a fresh version of irfanview to convert a large number of images to .PNG, but the output resolution won't budge from 1920x1280. Input files are 8392x5620 .RW2, all plugins ...
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If you have pinned applications, can the Start Menu be made less wide than the width of the application list and three medium sized icons?

On Windows 10, I have the list of application in my Start Menu. Next to that list, I have a 1 column wide and 8 rows long list of pinned applications. All of my icons are Small size. Despite this, my ...
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Set a Specific Window Size Relatively to the Screen Resolution via AutoHotKey

I created a script that automatically sets the window size for certain apps. I put it in Startup so it works independetly. I needed this because I have a laptop with 2560x1600 screen resolution and I ...
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How to merge a NFTS partition cut into two pieces?

I have a Dual Boot O.S. in a NVMe SSD and I also have a 500GB HDD that had an old computer; that HDD had 3 partitions (A, B and C) and I decided to delete partition A in order to create my linux ...
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Setting a default window size for MS Word

About 50% of the time Word will open in the size that it was last closed in. About 25% of the time it will open a new word window in the size of the first word window that I opened since I booted the ...
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Can't resize maximized frameless window

My text editor (vile.exe) has no menu bar. In Win 10 (mine, anyway), it also has no title bar. Sometimes, when moving this window, I inadvertently cause it to maximize. Once thus, I haven't found a ...
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Resizing the video is lowering the quality of video - FFMPEG

I have successfully resized my video to size: 720:576. But the quality of video has gone down. I don't want quality to go down. I don't want any compression. Orignal video size: 296 MB After resizing ...
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Resizing qemu images with backing file

We have a base image and based thereon multiple copy-on-write images (qcow). There are many pages (e.g., this SO post) that explain how to resize an existing image. However, I couldn't find an ...
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Does the GUID or UUID of a partition change on resizing the partitions?

Q1) Does the GUID or UUID of a partition change on resizing the partitions? I have a partition with lot of free space(windows partition) and another with little free space (ext4 --> / (root ...
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Resizing PDF pages to uniform size

I have a multi-page PDF file. Due to the nature of its making (scanning with a camera and then cropping), the pages are all in different (but similar) sizes. I would like to perform resizing on each ...
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Can't boot ubuntu 18.04 after resizing ntfs partition using miniTotal partition wizard

I have windows 10 and ubuntu 18.04 installed I was running out of space in my root partition, so i wanted to shrink the ntfs partition and expand the root partition. I tried to shrink using the disk ...
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Extend system partition Windows 10?

I had three OSes installed: Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. I only use Windows 10, and that drive is now running low on space. I have deleted the Windows 7 and 8.1 installations (deleted those ...
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How do I view the full properties of a file in the Properties dialog box?

I'm trying to look at the Properties of a Consolas font TTF file, but it cuts off the sentences midway (eg File Description/License Description) and I can't resize the Properties window by click-...
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Increase the LXD/LXC Btrfs loop file storage pool size

Our production container crashed because its LXC storage pool is out of space. Here is dh -h from inside the container: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/loop0 82G 78G 2....
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Increase RAID 1 volume size with Intel RST on system drive

I need to increase RAID 1 volume size over Intel RapidStorageTechnology on system drive - question is will it delete any data?? RST itself didnt show any warning or confirmation on this, I need to ...
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How to resize two adjustant partition in Linux

My hard drive looks like this: Now I want to use all the allocated space and double or triple the size of /dev/sdb5 and /dev/sdb6. But gParted displays warning that if I move the partition then I ...
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How to automatically adapt the text size in a shape with a fixed height in Visio

I have created a shape (a rectangle) with fixed dimensions, I cannot change theses dimensions. In this shape a text is automatically written by a vba code. But this text is different depending on a ...
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How could I resize this image without misplacing pixels?

I wanna resize an upscaled 1366x768 image down to its native 480x270 again. Every time I do it, lines of pixels are misplaced. Example with highlighted areas. The image on the right is slightly out ...
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Make windows in Windows 10 resizeable by drag when window are maximized

I wonder why it is not possible to resize windows when they are maximized. Is there any way to make it possible? Thanks. https://prnt.sc/mgtm5f
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How to resize virtualbox guest storage which is splited

My host is windows 10 and guest is Mint 19 cinnamon 64 bit. When I made this guest I selected my storage size 100 GB, formate VMDK, and split the file in 2 GB. So now I have many .vmdk files such as ...
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Gimp - I don't seem to be able to arbitrarity move the edges of a selection anymore

I'm certain I used to be able to arbitrarily move any of the four sides of a selection without the other sides changing, but I can't anymore. When I click inside the selection and get the sizing bars ...
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How to resize the view of specific software [duplicate]

Looking at the image attached the problem is self-explanatory. The tabs and icons within the software (photoshop in this particular case) are extremely small so that they are barely visible and ...
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ffmpeg resize PNG image sequence using alpha padding

I am trying to resize a sequence of PNG images using alpha padding (the images are already surrounded by alpha pixels). The following command resizes how I want, but it adds black pixels: ffmpeg -i "...
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Drag a window beyond screen that is not resizable with custom scaled text turned on [duplicate]

Alt+Space+M doesn't work either, and I can't resize the window because it reverts to its original position when I press enter, I have custom scaled text turned on and the window is too big to fit on ...
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LVM complaining about device smaller than logical volume

I just installed Slackware on my laptop, with full disk encryption (LVM on LUKS). It works fine but there is a warning from LVM: WARNING: Device /dev/mapper/lukssda2 has size of 115996431 sectors ...
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resize/shrink root filesystem with grub2 (ie: before it is mounted)

Context: a few remote debian 7 32bit servers only accessible via SSH more than half of the disks are empty 1 whole disk partition per server small maintenance window, cannot be down for long ext4 ...
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Resizing all pictures, bigger than a given size with macro in Microsoft Word 2007?

I have a Word document with some 5000 pictures. There are two types, ones, that have low height, and others, which are higher. I only want to resize the ones higher than 1 cm to have a width of 2.3 cm....
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How can I re-size all display output on a MacBook with letterboxing/mattes, to avoid dead edges of the LCD?

Context My MacBook pro's LCD is damaged. Warranty support and replacement purchase are, at least for several months, impossible for me. The damage is very specific: only the left vertical 1" (around ...
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Windows Firefox Security Exception Window resizing itself

When manually adding a security exception in Firefox the pop-up window resizes itself to a slightly larger size if you click the "get-certificate" button. The issue is that this size becomes permanent ...
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win 10 - resize adjacent window?

When I drag a window to the side of a screen, to say, use half the screen, and then drag another window to the other side ot use the other half of the screen, is there anything I can do to resize both ...
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resize2fs: "Can't read a block bitmap" after shrinking ext4

I've used resize2fs /dev/sda3 300G to shrink an ext4-partition to 300GB. Then I used parted resizepart 3 310G to shrink the partition size in the partition table to 310GB, slightly bigger than it's ...
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How to maximize Office Word window on Mac OS (Sierra)

So I'm new to Mac and just trying to figure out how to do basic things like I'm used to from Windows. I found that double-tapping the title bar of windows typically only maximizes in one direction (...
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Can't resize Ubuntu's main partition with GParted

I'm running out of space on the root partition and I want to give it more space but I don't know how. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04, dual boot with Windows. Here is my extended partition on GParted: As you ...
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Shrink non-OS windows partition

I am having difficulty shrinking a partition on our file server (Windows 2012r2). This server has a single physical drive, with two partitions. The C: partition holds the OS is 40gb and almost out ...
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How to resize space from Windows to Ubuntu

I am trying to insert the unallocated space to /dev/sda11 but it cant be done I previously freed some space from my Windows partition then swapped off linux-swap then added the space to it then ...
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change Windows 10 drag files (icon size)

When I drag a file to move to a folder in Windows 10, the icon that shows is so large that it hides the folder name. I want to know how can I re-size the icon that shows, or remove it altogether? (I ...
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Resize in FFmpeg

I have a video which has a resolution of 1920x1080p. I want to re-encode this video (with libx264 for video and aac for audio); Downscale it first to 1280x720p (with the same aspect ratio) while ...
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How to resize (shrink) images without increasing their filesize?

I have a bunch of lossless optimized png's which I want to resize/shrink. Whenever I try to resize them the filesize is actually getting bigger. I've tried Imagemagick and Irfanview. This kinda doesn'...
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Unable to resize image and keep image quality

I have a image that i want to use as a header on my site but i have problem resizing the image. The header size is 960x290 but the image size is 1600x1200. I used IrfanView and resized the width of ...
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Windows 10 Resizes and Moves Windows when Computer Wakes [duplicate]

When I wake my computer up my windows resize to a smaller form and they also seem to move the upper left hand corner of the screen. There is an answer to this question on answers.microsoft.com but it'...
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When in full screened windows in Windows 10, the very bottom of window is covered by toolbar

Alright, so this is a minor, but very annoying issue with Windows 10. When I either snap an application window to the side or put the screen to full screen, the application by default is taking up the ...
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Truncate empy space from a raw dd image

I have a raw disk image I took using dd of a Ubuntu instance. The total disk size is 300 GB, but only 5.5 GB used. Is there a way to resize the raw dd image down to 20 GB, keeping all of the 5.5 GB ...
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Reset size of an embedded object to its "natural" size in Visio 2010

Embedded objects typically have a "natural" size. For example a 200x200 image with 100 dpi has a natural size of 2x2 inches. Similarly, a MathType formula has a natural size in which its native font ...
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Lower maximum capacity of external hard drive

I am attempting to make the maximum size of my seagate hard drive smaller (it is 5TB and I want it to be 2TB). I have a blu ray player that onlys sees 2<=TB drives. I have tried all of the ...
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Will zero filling increase the size of virtualbox dynamic disk image

I have been mostly using fixed-sized disk images for Oracle virtualbox, but I am considering switching to dynamic disk images as I heard that dynamic images are similar in performance to fixed-size ...
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Using keyboard shortcuts to resize/position individual windows

I'm using Windows 8.1 and have recently bought a 4k monitor. I want to make full use of the desktop estate I have. That's why I have all my application windows set to 1/4th the available size. But ...
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