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0010252ardourfeaturespublic2026-03-17 06:12
Reporterwiwi1019 Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status newResolutionopen 
PlatformUbuntuOSLinuxOS Version(any)
Product Version9.2 
Summary0010252: Bottom pane height not resizable
DescriptionHi,

I'm using Ardour 9.2 and noticed that the bottom pane (which shows plugin controls, etc.) doesn't appear to be resizable. When I hover over the divider between the bottom pane and the timeline area, the cursor doesn't change to a resize handle, so I can't drag it to adjust the pane height.

Is this intentional, or is resize support planned/missing? I'd love to be able to freely resize it.

Thanks for the great work on Ardour!
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wiwi1019

2026-03-16 08:24

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ardour-bottom-pane.png (222,772 bytes)   
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axra

2026-03-16 08:57

reporter   ~0030129

I think it's intentional.
But I agree it would be a very nice feature to freely resize it.
Same with the track width and the left track pane in edit view.

Daniele1971

2026-03-16 16:53

reporter   ~0030133

+1 for resizeabe panel.

pyrotek45

2026-03-16 18:11

reporter   ~0030134

Paul said this is intentional. however i too would like to be able to resize it. i brought that up here. https://tracker.ardour.org/view.php?id=10169

pyrotek45

2026-03-16 21:43

reporter   ~0030135

to me this doesn't make any sense, because, in the cue mode. the bottom panel is resizable. yet has a minimum low range , and maximum high range , which still isnt low enough for me on my screen to show the whole track section in the top cue section. it would be nice if i could resize it anywhere, and there wasn't like a minimum or maximum, but instead let me make it fullscreen inside the ardour. . i dont know why the piano roll even has a separate window when it could have been a full screen mode inside of ardour itself. idk? that seems like it would have been much nicer, having all the screens within the program itself when editing.

pyrotek45

2026-03-17 04:05

reporter   ~0030137

its completely possible, and even feels pretty good tbh. check out the video.

axra

2026-03-17 06:05

reporter   ~0030138

And why don't you tell us how?

pyrotek45

2026-03-17 06:12

reporter   ~0030139

I meant, it's possible for the devs to add it. The video is from my version of Ardour. I have been using ai to add features to a personal build on my machine. If you want to try it you can find it on my github. https://github.com/pyrotek45/ardour/tree/feature/resizable-bottom-panel

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2026-03-16 08:24 wiwi1019 New Issue
2026-03-16 08:24 wiwi1019 File Added: ardour-bottom-pane.png
2026-03-16 08:57 axra Note Added: 0030129
2026-03-16 16:53 Daniele1971 Note Added: 0030133
2026-03-16 18:11 pyrotek45 Note Added: 0030134
2026-03-16 21:43 pyrotek45 Note Added: 0030135
2026-03-17 04:05 pyrotek45 Note Added: 0030137
2026-03-17 04:05 pyrotek45 File Added: resize-panel.webm
2026-03-17 06:05 axra Note Added: 0030138
2026-03-17 06:12 pyrotek45 Note Added: 0030139