Questions relating to the resizing of application windows. For questions about resizing partitions please use the partitioning tag.
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How to expand the ext4 primary partition size in a VMware Player virtual disk?
I have a VMware Player virtual machine setup, running Ubuntu 10.04 as the a guest OS.
The VM was created on a 20GB virtual drive, with a single partition for working space. Finally I got to the point ...
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Resize ext4 /home partition from start sector
I need to resize my ext4 /home partition to make space to my boot partition before it. The thing is to do so I need to change the start sector of my home partition (the boot partition is extended on ...
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How do I enable live window resizing in Ubuntu 13.04?
In Ubuntu 13.04 when you resize an application window by clicking with the mouse on any of its borders the whole window area gets covered by an orange transparent film; if then the mouse cursor is ...
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Resize Boot Device Volume [duplicate]
I'm Wondring how can I resize Boot Volume because it got 15GO of space and he use only 71.7MB only almost 0% of space. So I want to reduce This space and add it to principle Device "/"
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resize non-adjacent partitions?
I have a dual boot with three main partitions, one each for Ubuntu, Windows, and my files. I want to make the one with Windows ("OS") a bit larger, which would have to be at the expense of the one ...
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How to resize windows with alt+right click instead of alt+middle click in Ubuntu 13.04
The title says it all. I want to resize windows with an right click while holding the alt key, instead of the new default alt+middle click.
I have found no way to enable this behaviour in 13.04. The ...
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Install geforce gtx 680 un Ubuntu 12.10
Noob here experimenting with Linux stuff.
My screen resolution is out of proportion in my monitor, it's too stretchy. The only way I have solved it in windows 8 is by changing the setting of the ...
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GUI program to resize pdf documents and change their DPI
I see that LibreOffice Draw should be able to open a pdf and export it with options for changing quality and DPI resolution. But the high-resolution scanned pdfs that I have are not properly opened in ...
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SSH terminal resizing not working - rackspace cloud server
It appears that rackspace cloud ubuntu servers that you ssh into do not auto resize the column count when you use gnome-terminal. They are fixed at whatever size you connect at. However, you do not ...
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How to reallocate space from /home to /root with encrypted partitions?
My computer is dual booting windows 7 and ubuntu (12.04). My ubuntu partition has an encrypted root and home. The trouble is that for a while the /root partition has been almost full (94% to 98%. I ...
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Computer shut down during resizing of drive, stuck!
Basically I was trying to resize my drive since I was low on disk space for the Ubuntu OS using a WUBI of Ubuntu 12.10(I believe that or 12.04). But my computer shut down in the process. Now when I ...
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terminator terminal resize
I set up the terminator terminal to the quake drop down mode; however, the terminal is only 90x25. I would like for it drop down the whole width of the screen but not full screen. When the terminal ...
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How to resize an image through the terminal?
I have Ubuntu 10.04. I have converted image through terminal using the following command:
convert myfigure.png myfigure.jpg.
But I want to resize the height and width of the converted image. Is ...
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ffmpeg resize “could not find codec parameters”
I'm a newbee to ubuntu and need your help: (32bit ubuntu 12.10) my command:
ffmpeg -i ../output_images/particles%04d.png -r 30 -b 30000k final_movie.avi
works for my 800x800 *.png pictures ...
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How to resize a partition to the min-size via a script
I need to shrink my partition to min-size, like resize2fs -M /dev/sba6 but, it seems that resize2fs does not change the physical partition, just the structure of the filesystem.
parted can resize ...
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How to increase the disk space of Ubuntu installed besides dual boot without using WUBI? [duplicate]
I want to increase the disk space on the partition that the Ubuntu installed in.
I wonder about doing this in windows or in Ubuntu? The rest free space is less than 300MB.
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Formatting windows 7 partition to give it to ubuntu?
I have 2 partitions Windows7 and Ubuntu.
Both are installed and running well, except I would like to get rid of my windows 7 or at least a part of it and give that space to ubuntu.
So I am looking ...
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Ubuntu DualBoot Installation Process - Resizing Partition
I decided to have Ubuntu to dualboot with Win7.
I have read couple of guides, and it seems that I still can't get this right.
ATM I have my laptop running the Ubuntu CD, I picked in installation type ...
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Resizing wubi installation [duplicate]
I've recently installed Ubuntu using Wubi on my windows 7 computer.
My goal is to instal Team Fortress 2 onto the Ubuntu part so I can play TF2 in Linux.
So far everything has gone well from ...
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Ubuntu 12.10, cannot resize any window
I am using the unity interface and i usally work with maximized windows.
However lately i noticed that i cannot resize windows.
I can get them maximized and to normal state.
When in normal state i ...
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How do I resize an existing Wubi installation? [duplicate]
I have Windows 7 as my default OS and 500 GB Hard Disk.
Following is the partition table of my Hard Disk:
I have installed Ubuntu with "install inside windows" option.
sda1 is the System ...
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Alt+Middle drag to resize doesn't work in Precise on a Lenovo T410
Alt+middle mouse button drag, in Linux, means resize the Window. This works on my desktop install of Precise, but not on my laptop.
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T410. When I Alt+middle drag, windows ...
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How do I fix a problem with VLC that started after a window resize?
Today I had some windows open in workspace 1 and in the workspace below it I had VLC open. When I clicked on the VLC sidebar icon when I was in workspace 1 the window moved up to workspace 1, but it ...
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Is there a simple fix to get my launcher size slider bar back in Settings>Appearance?
My launcher icon size slider bar recently disappeared from the system settings since recent updates. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04, but I am not comfortable editing files or anything like that, so I need ...
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How do I resize various dialogue boxes that ask for passwords, user inputs etc?
Here is a screen-shot of what I want to resize. On Ubuntu 11.10, this kind of dialogue were little short by length. That looked good. Is there a way to do so by digging in the system files or by ...
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Unable to Merge Win7 Partition with Unallocated Space Released from Xubuntu
Please see the current partitions in Gparted below [edit - I wasn't allowed to post an image, I just posted the output of fdisk -l], I have moved & resized my Xubuntu partition in order to ...
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How to enlarge icons in browse menu?
How can i enlarge icon in browse menu? When i want to upload some pictures to sites, and when a window opens for finding and selection images, icons are to small, i need to enlarge them so i can see ...
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How to resize Unity Launcher Icons? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I resize the Unity launcher?
Ubuntu 12.04.
I want to resize the icons in the launcher. As shown in this picture there is a resize tab and a restore defaults ...
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Ext4 error “something wrong with extent”
After splitting HDD into system and home partitions I get the following error at the very beginning after computer is turned on:
error: something wrong with extent
Then Ubuntu is loaded and ...
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can't resize maximized dash home 12.04
I tried changing dconfig editors from-factor and home-expanded, but to no avail. I have 1024x768 screen resolution. tried ubuntu 2D and just ubuntu.
(I want this to add apps to startup apps by ...
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How to enable alt+right click to resize window
Been looking around and can't see to find any information on how to enable alt+right click for window resize?
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My mistake
Running Unity 12.04, I am logged in under failsafe graphics mode as i ...
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Resize or migrate Wubi install [closed]
I swapped from a 128GB disk to a 256GB disk. The 128GB was (almost completely) full. By that, I mean I'm not able to download any updates for the 11.04. This is a dual boot setup. Win7 & ...
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Resizing disk space
I'm using Wubi 12.04. When I installed, the disk size was 18 GB. Now I'm almost running out space. But I have enough space in Windows drive in which I installed Wubi.
I tried to increase the size of ...
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Resize NTFS Volume LVM
This is my setup with a Harddrive of 1TB capacity and one lvm partition with the size of around 100GB on it. Within the LVM there is a NTFS drive containing Windows.
I'd like do resize the NTFS drive ...
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How to resize byobu in Ubuntu 12.10?
I was a happy user of byobu for many months. I was running it between two Ubuntu 11.10 machines and I never had a problem with window sizes. From my laptop I would connect through ssh to my ...
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Unable to resize windows
One of my ubuntu machines, a netbook running Gnome classic on Ubuntu 12.04 (32bit), has a problem: I cannot resize windows. I can unmaximize them and remaximize them, and the resize icons do appear ...
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Recover partition after GParted resizing interrupted by unexpected shutdown
As I was resizing my partitions using GParted, my laptop battery ran out, and the process was interrupted.
Now, I am unable to mount the partition which I was trying to resize. I get the following ...
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how to resize an encrypted logical volume?
I installed Ubuntu with encryption and LVM on my entire haddisk...
Now I want to resize it.
How do I do This...
Following this link gave me errors on step 2 -
How to resize a LVM partition?
error
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TCP advertised window in Ubuntu 11.10
I want to increase TCP advertised window beyond 10 packets. I have tried tweaking most of the relevant parameters in /proc/sys/net/ like
/proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max,
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem
I ...
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GParted wont resize extended partitions
I have dual booted windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and have decided that I need more space on my Ubuntu partition. I used gparted on a Live CD to shrink my Windows 7 partition (/dev/sda3) but when i ...
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How to resize a folder name area in Ubuntu 12.04?
I am having folders on my desktop. The folders names exceed the folders icons. So that makes me difficult to read the folder names whenever I align all folders in a same line. What I want is to ...
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resizing partitions
I have the following configuration:
sda1 1 GB maybe fat32 (windows recovery partition)
sda2 40 GB ntfs(windows drive c) with boot flag
sda3 around 100GB ntfs(storage partition)
sda4 extended ...
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Resizing partitioned windows7/ubuntu12.04
I have a windows7 600GB HD that I partitioned to 350GB for windows7 and 250GB for ubuntu, but after some times I started getting messages that my HD is running out of space whenever I used the ubuntu ...
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Problem with the allocated partition memory
I installed ubuntu 12.04 using wubi on to a 60GB partition. I installed Qt sources, which are a couple of GB in size, but once I start commpiling it started complaining about lack of memory.
I ...
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Creating an Ubuntu live USB for use with Gparted
I've install Ubuntu 12.04 on my Windows 7 Dell laptop. Recently I discovered that I'm running out of space on my Ubuntu partition, and I would like to enlarge it.
Is it safe to resize partitions ...
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Shrinking file system taking a lot of time,Normal?
I'm using GParted to shrink the partition on my 500 GB external hard drive to a 220 GB partition. It contains about 210 GB of data. I'm shrinking it to convert FAT32 to EXT2. It has been almost an ...
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Gparted partition resize gone wrong - failed to read last sector
I have tried to resize (shrink) my NTFS partition so that I will be able to get more space for my ext4 Ubuntu's (12.04 64 bit) partition but after the partition has been resized I am unable to mount ...
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Create partition for Windows 7 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I install Windows 7 after I've installed Ubuntu?
I have a full ubuntu installation on my hard drive. But im in need of windows 7 too now. I found this guide ...
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Why does stickynotes resizing behaves so strangely?
Is there a reason why resizing sticky notes behaves so strangely and so differently from any other normal window-resizing behaviour (like it were running in a strange operating system from another ...
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Wubi froze while resizing virtual partition
Ok, so I managed to figure out how to resize my disk space from 30 GB to 50 GB. Now it was copying files, but now ubuntu is completely frozen at "copying from /usr" I have no clue what to do now, I've ...
