Any way to lift top of a Zoom window above the top of the screen?

[Member Andy3142]

Is there any way to lift the top of a Zoom window above the top of the physical screen? The purpose is to bring the eyes of the person I’m Zooming with closer to the camera (which is at the top.) I’m a therapist and it would help my work a lot to be more looking at their eyes when I look at my camera.

I guess that would mean putting the top bar, with the window controls, at the bottom of the window instead of the top. That doesn’t seem too impossible – can it be done? I should say I’ve very new to linux so simple is better.

Many thanks

Andy

[Member Xecure]

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Hi, Andy3142.

If you don’t maximize the window (fix it so it takes all the screen real estate), you can use a key modifier to change the window size and position.
In most window managers (at least in antiX) the key modifier is the “Alt” key.

Try this out. Open a window (non-maximized), and use Alt + left-click drag (anywhere on the window). You will see the window move in the direction of the mouse cursor.

You can also use Alt + Right-click drag to resize the window. Depending on where the mouse cursor is (close to which window corner) and the direction you drag, you can make the window bigger or smaller in that direction.

I hope this helps. If I didn’t explain properly, please let me know and I will try to use a GIF to make it more graphical and easier to understand.

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[Member Andy3142]

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Thanks @Xsecure, but re-sizing isn’t the problem. The problem is that no matter how much you re-size a window, the thing you cannot do with it is to slide the top above the top of the screen in the way you can slide the bottom down below the bottom of the screen. That’s because the control bar (I don’t know the proper name) it at the top and if that slides up off the top of the screen you lose it.

That means in a Zoom call if the person’s eyes are at the botton and my camera is at the top, I can only get their eyes up to the top by making the window really tiny and then lifting it up. What I can’t do is to leave it normal size and then slide the top up so their eyes are at the top.

To do that would require putting the control bar (whatever called) at the bottom of the window. Then you could slide the window off-screen upwards , though no longer off-screen downwards.

[Member Xecure]

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Sorry for not explaining properly. I am not the best with words.

ALT + Left-click drag anywhere on the window (not just the window titlebar) will move the window anywhere you move the mouse cursor to.
See if this gif helps

If it still isn’t understandable, I will try a different method of explaining.

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[Member fungalnet]

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Alt Left click, like xecure said in the first message. He just added the Alt-Right click resize as a 2nd trick to know for general use.

With alt-left-click on any window any point of the window becomes a grab point for the window to move. You can alt-click on the bottom right corner and drag it to the left top corner of the screen and the entire window moves out of visible range with the exception of this tiny little point you clicked on.

With arandr and multiple screens, all contained in a wider area, and the ability to move the focus of each screen in different places, it is better understood what exists beyond your visible rectangle. Unfortunately if you only have one screen connected you can’t see this. If you had two screens and set them up one on top of the other, then by moving one window up on the lower screen its top edge begins to appear on the lower part of the top screen.

The other option is to elevate your physical screen up so the subject’s eyes are on your level, or seat on a low chair for the session 🙂 Just joking of course.

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Many screens can be rotated, I do not know what hardware you have. My monitor is fixed but no worry
to lean it on a wall so long side is vertical. On a laptop if long wide you would need a separate
keyboard and mouse. Then find out how to rotate, I think that is fairly easy.

When I tried long ago I used an NVidia driver tool.

[Member Andy3142]

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Thank you all for this! It is wonderful! This simple thing is REALLY helpful!

Apologies that I misunderstood at first.

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