Of course the simple fix is to just add in a few pixels of virtual, invisible grab space around the corner of the window.
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Benjamin Humphrey <humphre...@gmail.com>wrote: > Meant to send this to everyone but ended up sending it to Alex only: > > Alex, > > Ha! The theme I use, and the new default themes, certainly make it very > hard to resize windows. It appears there is only 1px x 1px grab area in > Lucid. There's a bug report somewhere that I was reading a few weeks ago... > > > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Gavin Langdon <puttabu...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Luke Morton <luke.mor...@internode.on.net >> > wrote: >> >>> >>> Ambiance has a 1px border on the left and right--I don't think that's >>> enough to negate the case for a resize grip. As to your example, I find >>> resizing the terminal to be particularly frustrating. >> >> >> The tiny border is EXTREMELY annoying on my laptop in particular, as I >> lack the dexterity of a mouse when using the nub or trackpad (also holding >> down alt and the middle key while dragging is way out of the question on a >> laptop). It generally takes me about 3 or 4 seconds to find the draggable >> edge (and that's a lot of time compared to the split-second process it is >> for other decorators). Though it's nice to have flush themes, resizing >> really doesn't work with anything less than 3 pixels. >> >> Would be that hard to modify the window manager to watch the outer 5 >> pixels regardless of decorator border? That would result in a considerably >> easier experience. If this were the case standard widgets could take >> priority if they're close to the edge (although a good gui designer >> shouldn't have anything too close to the edge anyway) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana >> Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > > -- > Benjamin Humphrey > > Ubuntu Manual Team Lead > Dunedin, New Zealand > > http://www.ubuntu-manual.org > www.interesting.co.nz > > -- Benjamin Humphrey Ubuntu Manual Team Lead Dunedin, New Zealand http://www.ubuntu-manual.org www.interesting.co.nz
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