As Siegfried Gevatter first replied "I don't think most users have a
problem with that." I have to say that has been shown to now be an issue
for many. This is a severe issue in that anyone hampered by it will be
hit early on in their experience, and have such a high degree of getting
turned off by Ubuntu that they will most likely not bother to file a bug
report on their way on/back to another OS. If you can't easily move
windows around then you will not use Ubuntu, period. You are downright
less productive, besides annoyed.

 Now some of us have been lucky with first experiences on another PC, or
just decided perhaps there must be a setting or workaround. But let me
assure you that ALT-Middleclick is not obvious (but great feature!), and
dragging a window edge is the expected fail-safe since likely the dawn
of a resizeable "window". Also, on my laptop I do not have a middle
click, and pressing both buttons doesn't work or is too hard. The cursor
shakes from my fingertip rolling on the touchpad and while not as bad,
it is a bit of an inconvenience hitting the target as it has been on my
high resolution desktop.

 In short, this affects many, and turns off many more to Ubuntu. This
really needs to be fixed before Lucid, as I had hoped with Karmic, since
waiting another 6 months is really killing who knows how many potential
users. There is nothing like showing off this slick, new, fast and
secure OS and then I can't move the window, right when I had my friend
hooked. I almost hear the sad losing sound from the Price is Right! Dun
da da duuhhhh, DUUUUUUNNNNNNN!!!! Their faces go from :) to ,:| .

 If anything, I hope I have been constructive in getting the needed
attention to this highly underrated issue, for the future of Ubuntu.

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Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult
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