Some "gnome" apps have a resize corner, like Nautilus, but most GTK+
generic apps don't - Avidemux, Thunderbird, Firefox, DeVeDe and so on.
In fact, many gnome apps themselves don't bother with the resize corner
- look at the terminal for example.

Besides, that doesn't help you much when you want to resize down from
the top - you'd have to resize up, then drag down.  So much for ease of
use in that scenario.

Just crazy that the entire experience of using Gnome can be tarnished by
what should be easily fixed, and yet has been outstanding for nearly a
year (probably much longer), spanning three O/S's (Gutsy, Hardy and now
Intrepid).

Since posting, I've been messing about with themes and I've found one
setting that makes a small difference.  Go to
System/Preferences/Appearance, then choose "Customise", then the tab
"Window Border".  They all seem to be 2px or 3px in size, APART from one
called "Bright".  It seems to have a 4px or 5px border.  Sadly, it also
changes all your window styles (looks awful) and min/max/close widgets
(also looks awful).  And it's a kinda bad looking brown colour, which
doesn't fit the rest of my current theme.  Not really much of a fix
then.

But, I'm going to see if I can find the file that refers to "Bright" in
gnome themes (where ever they might be - the system themes certainly
aren't in ~/themes) and see what makes it's borders bigger.  If I can
find that I might be able to hack my "Dust" theme to have bigger
borders.

What a pile of shxx.  This, just so I can resize windows without having
to have the coordination of an olympic athlete.

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Window Resize Difficult (Window Border Thickness)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160311
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