Questions tagged [resizing]
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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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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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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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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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Use ALT to move windows in Windows like in Linux
In most Linux window managers, one can use the Alt key while clicking and dragging to rearrange windows. This is one of my favorite features of Linux window managers.
Is there a way to do this in ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How can I resize an NTFS partition when there are bad sectors?
I want to extend a partition, but in between the partition and the un-allocated space, there is a large NTFS partition in which Windows is installed.
When I use GParted to try and move the NTFS ...
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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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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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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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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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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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resize/shrink root filesystem with grub2 (ie: before it is mounted)
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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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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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Auto-resize images in Opera
Is there a setting that I can configure to automatically scale large images like Firefox does?
I'm using Opera 10.53, and when I open a large image in a new tab, it is not scaled at all. I'm on a ...
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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 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 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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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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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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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 prevent windows from being resized?
Adobe Audition is really stupid in that when you change the size of the window, and then change it back to the original size, all the frame positions are lost and you have to tediously reposition them ...
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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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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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How to resize Word shape object with keyboard?
I have some shapes that are very small. I can move these with the arrow keys, but resizing them does not seem to be possible (eg. with Shift-arrow or Ctrl-arrow).
The Keyboard shortcuts for working ...
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What is the fastest way to resize a large partition?
Due to a new HDD Configuration I am currently handling larger backup/resize tasks with partitions between around 900GB, which are 70-90% full.
some background:
First thing I've noticed was, that the ...
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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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iTerm 2 window resizing
My iTerm 2 window is up against the menubar at the top of the screen.
When I resize the window vertically from the top to the bottom, a small gap is always left. It never resizes down fully to the ...
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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?
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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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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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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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Disable window vertical stretch (and only that)
There's an annoying feature in windows 8 that when you resize a window and try to stretch the bottom of it to the bottom of the desktop, it automatically stretches the top to the top as well.
Is ...
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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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Restricting table cell resizing in Word
Is it possible to restrict users from resizing the cells of a table in protected documents in MS Word 2010? I want to restrict them from making any changes to the layout of the table (or, at least, to ...
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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 ...