Re: How to increase the window edge/corner grabber size?

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Author: Michael Butash
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: How to increase the window edge/corner grabber size?
Indeed, that is a good one, now trick is if I remember next time I need
it. Brain cells continue to evaporate getting old.

I'd still rather they make a more reasonable grab around the border by
default, but I'll take this assuming I do remember it.

Thanks!

-mb


On 12/30/2015 11:12 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 22:45:43 -0700
> sean <> wrote:
>
>> On Dec 30, 2015 10:41 PM, "Michael Butash" <> wrote:
>>
>>> This is a persistent frustration of mine, trying to resize a window
>>> takes some skill and simply infuriates me at times. Sadly I
>>> couldn't find an equivalent in kde4, I saw this post and thought to
>>> go looking again... Looked around Window Behavior, Workspace
>>> Behavior, and a several others - did you find it?
>>>
>>> As my arse gets older, grabbing those damn 1x1px borders to resize
>>> is becoming tedious in kde4. Who the hell thought that was a good
>>> idea.
>>>
>>> -mb
>> A pretty common window manager shortcut seems to be alt+right click to
>> resize (along with alt+left to move). I seem to remember this being
>> the default with kwin, flux/openbox, fvwm etc.
> I just tried alt+rightclick, and it's everything I would hope for. Just
> put the mousepointer near the corner you would have "grabbed", press
> alt and the right mouse button, and drag to resize. Perfect. Thanks!
>
> SteveT
>
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