Adding ubuntu-mate, as its window manager also suffers from 1-pixel wide
resize grab areas.
This is one of the most immediately frustrating issues of any window
manager, and it only gets worse as display pixel densities increase.
** Also affects: ubuntu-mate
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160311
Title:
Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult
Status in Ayatana Design:
Fix Released
Status in Decorator for compiz-fusion:
New
Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
Fix Released
Status in The Metacity Window Manager:
In Progress
Status in Ubuntu MATE:
New
Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in Unity:
Fix Released
Status in Unity 2D:
Invalid
Status in light-themes package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
This bug is fixed in unity-3d since ubuntu 11.04.
It still exists in unity-2d and will never be fixed as unity-2d is no longer
supported since ubuntu 12.10 (see comment #343).
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This should mostly be fixed for Natty and might get backported to
earlier releases as well.
For Precise (12.04) this is again broken for unity-2d (as of 17.7.2012
unity-2d 5.12.0-0ubuntu1.1).
Note that if the window has a scrollbar, you can grab that to resize the
window. If not, you are stuck with the 1px border. Workaround: NONE KNOWN (see
comment 320)?
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*************Blueprint for Natty, Ubuntu 11.04:
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/packageselection-
dx-n-resizing-windows
Work items1 * Make sure the new resize grip fits in current applications;
doesn't interfere with anything. We should make some noise about this during
the Natty cycle so people keep their eyes open and file bugs.
2 * Invisible window resize area - around 3px invisible area to allow resize
on all sides.
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Working grip backported to gtk2 already available in ppa :
https://launchpad.net/~bratsche/+archive/gtk
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Workaround for Compiz/Unity: Alt+Middlemousebutton resizes a window
most comfortably.
Workaround: Edit /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/metacity-1/metacity-
theme-1.xml. Set the following values in frame_geometry_normal as
desired:
<distance name="left_width" value="3"/>
<distance name="right_width" value="3"/>
<distance name="bottom_height" value="3"/>
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Binary package hint: metacity
- The issue has been an issue for users (especially of large) screens
for several releases- Trackpad users seem to be particularly impacted
by this- The issue appears to have been significantly aggravated in
Lucid by changing the border width from 3 pixels to 1 pixel
The window borders in metacity are far too thin to be used for
comfortable window resizing, and resize handles are not available in
all applications (or even most). In fact, of all the windows I have
open right now, not a single one of them has a resize handle. The
result is that I get a lot of "misses" when I try to drag a window
border, which usually results in my clicking on the wrong window
altogether. The best fix for this usability bug is to create an
"invisible" region around each non-maximized window about 4px thick
that can be used for resizing (in addition to the visible border). Or
perhaps there should be a border thickness option on the System >
Preferences > Windows dialog (although the default thickness should
still be increased considerably). Ideally all windows would also have
a resize handle but I realize that these have to be application
controlled (at least that seems to be the position of the metacity
team).
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