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I am actually surprised this ability is not present in Blender, as it is the most common thing that you can do in a lot of other programs.

I don't want to scale the entire UI.

I want to resize the actual nodes themselves so that I can read all the text and information that's displayed in them. Case in point:

screenshot of nodes

I hate how the nodes are so narrow to where a lot of information is cutoff with ellipses, like with RemapAlphaTo..., VColorGroup, and BaseTex. I want to be able to read everything listed in the node, not have it all shortened with ellipses. It doesn't seem possible to click on the edges and manually resize them to your liking.

If there's an option or ability to allow resizing them, I haven't found it within Blender. I haven't even found answers to it online; every result I've found is about someone wanting to know how to resize an image by using a node. That's definitely not what I'm looking for.

I don't know if I can provide a gif within a comment, so I assume I can only do it by editing my question. This is what I currently face:

gif of node sizing problem

EDIT: Okay, seeing people comment about how it IS possible is making me wonder what is going on with my setup of Blender. I will dig deeper.

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    $\begingroup$ Have you tried dragging from the corner? $\endgroup$
    – Duarte Farrajota Ramos ♦
    Commented Dec 22, 2022 at 23:55
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    $\begingroup$ Good news - you can hover and click on the edges to resize the nodes, and zoom in by scrolling the mousewheel to make them larger. $\endgroup$
    – Christopher Bennett
    Commented Dec 22, 2022 at 23:55
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    $\begingroup$ @ChiliBeef i.imgur.com/tUm0PEJ.mp4 $\endgroup$
    – Kuboå
    Commented Dec 23, 2022 at 0:11
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    $\begingroup$ I don't know why you're unable to resize via edge click - I am able to hover over any node edge or corner (until my cursor changes to a double arrow), then click and drag to resize to any dimensions I want (this is default behavior as far as I know.) $\endgroup$
    – Christopher Bennett
    Commented Dec 23, 2022 at 0:11
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    $\begingroup$ @ChiliBeef An easy way to test if an addon or sth else is interfering would be to open Blender in "factory reset" form. You could download one of the daily zips (builder.blender.org/download/daily), extract, there will be a folder with the version number there (for ex, "3.4" if that's what you've downloaded). Go in that folder, create a new folder named "config". That's it. Now it'll open with default settings with no addons enabled. $\endgroup$
    – Kuboå
    Commented Dec 23, 2022 at 0:45

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I found the reason why I was having issues: In Preferences > Keymap, Resize Node -- Left Mouse was unchecked.

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