Vlc Media Player How Sdo I Make It Smaller

[in a mo]

I feel destined spending the rest of my life solving the blimmin obvious .
I have just started using VLC media player as it has many free programmes I like to use ,my problem is I cannot find a way to shrink it ,the usual X square and line are not there all I can find is Quit ,I wish to keep it running whilst I am trying to sort out other obvious matters ,maybe this is one case for Mrs Mo and I to have a child preferably one who could hammer in a nail straight put a screw in without the use of our toffee hammer that kind of thing but that is another story.
Any idea please friends and a good afternoon to you.
Mr In A Mo

[Buenchico]

I've just run VLC and it took me a while to simulate your problem (because I've got the 'x' etc in the usual place).

I'm guessing that you've somehow got into 'full screen mode' which is available within many programs. F11 is always the key which toggles 'full screen' on and off, so I suggest pressing it. You'll then hopefully have a normal display, where the window can be resized by simply dragging the edges of it.

[puternut]

Could you have toggled it to play full screen?

I have used VLC a while now and I simply press the 'f' key to swap to/from full screen while video is showing.