On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:26:02 -0600 Paul Condon <pecond...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Until quite recently, i.e. in the last year or so, I used the Crux > theme in Gnome and more recent Xfce4. But in a recent install from > release 7.6 (of Wheezy), Crux has changed in a way that is significant > for me. I have a style of working in which I have many overlapping > terminal windows on the screen. When the window that has focus is too > small to contain some long lines without folding, I like to quickly > expand the window, either to the left or to the right, depending on > what other window will be covered by the expansion. > > The old Crux had thick borders on all four sides, top, bottom, left, > and right. This thick border made it easy to position the mouse cursor > on a particular edge and quickly adjust it to my liking. In the new > Crux the side borders are extremely hard to hit on with my imperfect > eye-hand coordination. I want the old Crux back. Hopefully, what bzzzz recommended, in a different email, about making a derivative crux, will work. But if it doesn't, positioning a mouse anywhere near the inside of one of the four corners and then Alt+right-dragging will change the size both horizontally and vertically. Placing the mouse near the center of any side and then Alt+right-dragging enables you to move that side in either direction. It's not perfect, but it got me through the day when I switched away from IceWM and lost my ability to easily resize. And it works in almost any Linux environment, although it's a little quirky in the dwm window manager. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140726065314.53b82...@mydesq2.domain.cxm
