I'm running Kate under Gnome. Somehow it was resized to a too-large size for my desktop. So now the Maximize and Resize buttons are unreachable. I'm assuming reinstalling would fix the problem, but if I can fix it without reinstalling that would be ideal. Any ideas/suggestions are much appreciated. (I have tried the keyboard shortcuts, with no results.)
When a window is bigger than the resolution of the monitor do the following:
Press and HOLD ALT (On Ubuntu 18.04+ Hold SUPER) and then simply click and HOLD the mouse button over the window you want.
Start dragging it until you can see the top part or at least a corner to resize it. Keep holding the corresponding key while doing each click until you can see a corner or the top. From there just resize it as you like.
Try this: Alt+F7 and then you can move the window, so you can reach the button :)
You simplify use shortcut for GNOME window ALT + F8 in order to move it freely. Then, focusing on your factor and rescaling it.
Or in the tweak-tool window, click the magnifier icon (search option), then enter scaling in the text field. That will display only options for which the name matches the word scaling. Now click the entry Windows. The option Window Scaling will now be located up the content pane and you could edit it back to 1.
My whole screen shifted to the right by 75% or so. I couldn't reach the up/down or left/right bars, so I tried what I thought was moving the screen to the left. I ended up resizing it, so then it was left adjusted, but the text still started 3/4 of the way to the right. After playing with it a while, I found if I went to the work space switcher and selected the space my file was spilling over into, I could 'pull' the page back into place by resizing it back where it belonged.
I had the same problem on Ubuntu 14.04 in Unity. I solved it by deleting all of the config files for kate. I found them under home/USERNAME/.kde/share/config.
WARNING: this will also remove any custom highlighting, colors, etc. when you do this.
This answer is a bit detailed version of Ffoeg311's.
Just rename the file kritarc(something like kritarc.old or kritarc.backup or may be anything) or delete the file kritarc which is in the path /home/USERNAME/.kde/share/config/. You can leave the remaining files.
If you are stuck with a tiny screen with low resolution on some non-standard device that is not hardware-capable of fitting more pixels, and you need to press e.g. an Ok button that is off-screen, then you might still use the keyboard to repeatedly press the Tab key to switch the focus to the unreachable button and then press the Enter key.
Might require a bit of guessing about how many times you need to press the Tab key.
Are you sure you're not in fullscreen mode?
Ctrl+Shift+F should toggle it on and off.
