How do I make Skype use the entire available screen width for my chats?

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It seems silly to waste all that screen real estate.

Mximized Skype window

You can expand the Skype screen to full width, but the text area maxes-out and does not use it. In lengthy chats it would be useful to be able to see more of the conversation. There is no obvious reason for a hard text width.

John K

Posted 2012-03-25T14:44:50.720

Reputation: 301

Answers

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As noted in this bug report, you can change the width of the text view by dragging the edges of the input box:

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This way you can make the text view much wider: enter image description here

Der Hochstapler

Posted 2012-03-25T14:44:50.720

Reputation: 77 228

Not working on mac client. – Evgeni Petrov – 2016-11-18T12:22:52.460

@EvgeniPetrov Late reply but for the Mac client you can do the same by dragging the edge of the blue line between the messages and the text input. – kaba – 2017-07-12T13:42:06.150

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