Hi guys, something rather embarrasing has happened to me this morning. I have an asus zen book, pretty small, with ubuntu running on it. In screen display I've accidentally changed the zoom level (can't remember exactly how it's called, it's an option under screendisplay which allows you you imcrement/decrement the zoom), and currently it's set to the maximum, which means that now I can't get back to it as it's too big to be displayed on the screen. I tried to tab through it but it's not having it, resize the page but no joy, so now I'm stuck with a zoome level which doesn't allow me to use the laptop. Is there anything you suggest to get back to a normal level (it was about 2.5 before I changed it?)

There's probably something in $HOME/.????? that you can delete (or edit) to reset things to defaults. Otherwise use a non-high DPI de/wm which doesn't have a zoom feature. Control+Alt+F# to get to a console to rm the .conf type files in $HOME/ aka ~/. Or use a standard M$ methodology of nuke and pave. Where there's a will, there's a way.

As I understand your problem, you can't get to the button to change the zoom as it's off the screen?

You should be able to move the display window using <alt> left-mouse-button (the cursor turns into a hand!) Just move it till the zoom button is visible then reconfigure!

Sorted!

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Soadyheid, no that didn't work either, the window would move down but not up, constrained by the menu bar at the top. Anyway, eventually I found this
on this post https://askubuntu.com/questions/5825...-terminal-only. Life saver.

please mark your thread solved.
others will benefit.

Strange? If I open a terminal window (I'm running Mint 18.2 Cinnamon) I can use <alt> left-mouse-button to grab the window in the middle and can move it off the bottom of the screen. It will also move off the top though there does seem to be some resistance before the menu bar moves off the top. It's been very useful to access "missing" buttons at the bottom of windows for my eEEPC netbook which is a bit limited in screen space.

Anyway... You got a fix, well done!

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