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Questions relating to the resizing of application windows. For questions about resizing partitions please use the partitioning tag.

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How do I resize root partition?

I have a dual boot setup with Ubuntu and Windows 7. I need to shrink my root Ubuntu volume in order to get some free space to create a new partition. Are there any Windows based tools that will do ...
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How do I disable the window resizing when accidentally touching one of the screen edges in GNOME 3?

In Ubuntu 18.04, when moving the windows there is a resize effect that occurs when accidentally touching one of the screen edges. This control was available in CCSM and Ubuntu Tweak in previous ...
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How to easily resize images via command-line?

I would like to know how to resize images in Ubuntu. What is the easiest tool to do so?
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Remove Windows Vista Partition So Ubuntu Fills Entire Hard Drive? [duplicate]

I created a partition for Ubuntu so I could dual-boot Windows Vista with it. However, Windows is no longer necessary and I want Ubuntu to take up the entire hard drive. I was wondering how to safely ...
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Gparted can't resize Ubuntu partition [duplicate]

I installed Ubuntu with Windows. Before installing, I shrunk the space for Ubuntu. Now I have 3.7GB free in my Ubuntu home.That's not enough for me. So I shrunk my NTFS partition, it's now unalocated....
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How can I disable the multitouch gestures in Ubuntu?

My workstation with Ubuntu 12.04 is a MacBook Pro which supports a Multitouch Trackpad. Unfortunately, I'm constantly accidentally triggering the three finger touch gesture to resize a window: How ...
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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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Unallocated space, how to resize /home partition?

I removed my Windows OS and now I want to resize my /home partition with that unallocated space. The main problem is that the free space is not under my sda4. How to move it there and then resize my /...
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How can you resize the icons in the Unity Dash?

The icons in the panel are way too large for my preferences, how can you resize them?
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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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How to increase the partition size of Ubuntu installed under Windows? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I give Ubuntu 10.10 more space (when installed inside Windows 7 (via wubi))? I installed Ubuntu 11.04 under Windows (using Wubi) and the default size for the "partition"...
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How to change color of unity workspace border, and window resize

Currently running ubuntu 11.10. So I've been doing a lot of work on a new theme to match the physical look of my laptop which is a blue, black, white theme. Obviously orange visuals look out of place. ...
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Terminal Short-cut ctrl + alt + T, 2 terminals, different size

In Ubuntu, you can change the default size of the terminal using (edit>profile preferences) to change the size. How can you use the shortcut for bringing up terminal ctrl+alt+T to create two terminals ...
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Is there easy and safe way to resize /boot

My /boot is full. Is there an easy and safe way to resize it? I saw a discussion which said that /boot partition is not required. A /boot directory will be fine. However, I don't think I can have /...
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How to increase size of /boot partition using gparted

please help me here i am always getting messages saying no free space available in boot partition. output of ls -alh /boot total 79M drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1.0K Sep 7 20:53 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root ...
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How do I resize root partition

I need to resize root as there is not enough space left in the partition. At present I am not able to install new package nor update ubuntu. I tried sudo apt-get clean and emptying trash but it does ...
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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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How can I resize the Unity Dash?

When I open the Unity Dash from the launcher, the Dash takes up the whole screen and doesn't give me the ability to resize it. This makes it impossible to see my desktop and drag and drop icons to it ...
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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 properly, ...
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How to resize partition that is inside "Linux LVM" partition

How to resize partition that is inside "Linux LVM" partition in 13.10 Ubuntu? I transferred Ubuntu installation from 160GB to 500GB disk. I have successfully resized sda3 partition using Ubuntu LiveCd ...
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"Re-size" the .img for smaller SD-card. How to SHRINK a bootable SD card image

Context I have a 16 GB SD card with a Linux based OS for a Raspberry Pi. Most of the space is empty. I want to share the SD .img with other people but if I use the command dd if=/dev/sdXX of=/home/...
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How do I shrink the root logical volume (LV) on LVM?

I don’t need to actually shrink the MBR partition, just the logical volume that contains the root “/” filesystem. It’s ~200GB now, and I need to shrink it to ~150GB to make room for a new logical ...
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How can I change the alt+middle-mouse-button resize to alt+right-mouse-button?

I love how you can resize windows by pressing alt+middle-mouse-button and drag. Though now I got a mouse which doesn't support pressing the middle mouse button.. How do I do to change the ...
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How do I resize the partition of a Ubuntu-server?

Is there an easy way to decrease the disk volume on a Ubuntu server? I run a virtual environment and need to decrease my disk volume since I'm running out of space in my non virtual environment.
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Prevent Unity from auto-maximizing [duplicate]

Possible Duplicates: Is there a way to turn off “auto-maximize”? How to keep programs from launching maximized? 11.04 On a small netbook screen, it's useful to have windows maximized by default....
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Can I set a keybinding to resize a window to half its size, in a chosen direction?

Using Ubuntu 14.04, I'm looking into getting a 40" 4k display and have found how to resize windows down to quarter sections of the screen, but I would like the ability to further resize them down if ...
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Resize root partition from home partition space (swap in the middle)

I want to resize my root partition using Gparted but before doing it I want to make sure I'm doing it correctly. Here is a screenshot of my GParted: So, my question is: Assuming I launch Ubuntu ...
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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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How to change the default desktop icon size?

How to change the size of desktop icons? I tried gconf-editor as given at How to change desktop icon size? . I am not getting the option for changing size at app > nautilus > icon_view. I am ...
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How to resize windows with alt+right click instead of alt+middle click in Ubuntu 13.04 [duplicate]

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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Expanding partition

I have a 220g partition with ubuntu. And a empty partition 100g. How can I expand the partition with ubuntu? I boot from liveCD, start gparted, sgrink 1 partition, and could't expand the 2 partition.
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Distortion during window-resizing, typing in the address bar of firefox and in other places

I'm facing a screen distortion problem, when I'm trying to resize a window. It can be a window of any application, like file manager, VLC, Firefox, anything. The distortions happen in flashes, like ...
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How to resize boot partition

Here's my problem. I'd like to reinstall Ubuntu. My laptop is an old HP Compaq nx7400. The optical drive went wrong, it can't read discs. I would use a USB port instead but the laptop won't boot from ...
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Partition resize [duplicate]

I have a dual boot system with C: drive with windows 227 GB E: drive in windows 185 GB Ext4 Ubuntu - 38 GB Linux swap - 4 GB I want to decrease the space from E: drive from 185 GB to say about 160 ...
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How to resize an image through the terminal? [duplicate]

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 there ...
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Why can't I resize a dynamic VDI with modifyhd command?

I see here How do I increase the hard disk size of the virtual machine. It should work with a command like VBoxManage modifyhd xp.vdi --resize 2000 When the VDI has a fixed size you can get this ...
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my windows do not resize when I drag them on top or on side of my screen

I'd like to have them resizing automatically to half or full screen by moving the window to a border of the screen. I use Ubuntu 11.10. Fresh install.
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How to enable alt+right click to resize window [duplicate]

Been looking around and can't see to find any information on how to enable alt+right click for window resize? edit My mistake Running Unity 12.04, I am logged in under failsafe graphics mode as i ...
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Mouse pointer size inconsistent

Since installing Ubuntu 12.04, I've been having a problem with the mouse pointer size. On the desktop, it is quite a bit larger than it should be (24), though the different cursors (editing text, ...
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Certain windows are not opening in the last position/size I used them at [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to save window positions? Certain windows are not opening in the last position/size I used them at. Opening "compose a message" with evolution through the message menu on ...
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Is it safe to resize root partition?

My HDD is partitioned into two equal sized partitions. First is being used for Windows and Second for Ubuntu. Everything is working fine. But now I want to remove Windows and use the disk completely ...
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How to resize partition via command line?

I have Ubuntu installed on a VirtualBox VM. How can I resize the Linux partition (not the virtual drive)? I already performed the VM resize using VBoxManage modifyhd to resize the virtual drive, but ...
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How to move/resize xfce4-terminal using the command line?

How do I move and resize the xfce4-terminal by command line? The problem is that the command echo -ne '\e[3;0;0t' does not re-position my xfce4-terminal and has no apparent affect. man xfce4-terminal ...
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Size of grab area for resizing window in lubuntu

I am new to lubuntu and trying to optimize a couple of relatively minor items. Right now I am trying to increase the width of the area one can use to grab the window to resize it (from the sides or ...
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Linux clone encrypted drive to smaller drive

I want to upgrade my laptop's drive with more speed, so I want to clone my current hard disk to an SSD. Unfortunately they're not the same size. I already found this question, but I'm unhappy with ...
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How to increase wubi /root disk space [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I give Ubuntu 10.10 more space (when installed inside Windows 7 (via wubi))? I'm running out of space in wubi. Online wubi help didn't help much since they suggest ...
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How to resize terminal window permanently using CLI?

Inside the terminal when I type resize -s 50 50 terminal output is changed as rows 50 and columns 50. But after closing the window and reopen terminal doesn't reflect the changes. I want to open the ...
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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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Resizing windows with keyboard shortcuts

I have seen some people resizing their windows very efficiently with shortcuts.. For example window is on full screen then you press some key and it becomes the left side of the screen then another ...
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Resizing a window should be easier - increase boarder pixel count?

Currently its too difficult to resize a window by hovering cursor on window edge or corner until cursor changes to that double arrow pointer ... when I install Ubuntu 19.04 for people new to computers ...
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