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[Giyomunice <giyomunice@xxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 160311 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160311

Hi,
Running Ubuntu 12.04 with unity, I found it VERY difficult and annoying to resize a window by grabbing the edges, especially when I need to discuss my work with other people and they try to grab the window to show me something. 
Such a simple task should be easy for people using Ubuntu AND ESPECIALLY for the ones who DON'T, so they don’t get a wrong prejudice on Ubnutu/Linux systems before actually experiencing it. Unity is supposed to help democratizing Linux systems if I’m right...
I tried some workarounds, they work fine but : 
- as I said, people not using it everyday won’t know about AltF8, AltMiddle 
- changing the visible borders via metacity works fine, but windows become very ugly with a 3-8 px border.
So the point of comment #27 is right : visible borders and grabbable borders are two different things, and both should exist. 

Thank you for working on it, regards

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878198

Title:
  Difficult to grab window borders

Status in “light-themes” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “unity-2d” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “light-themes” source package in Precise:
  Invalid
Status in “metacity” source package in Precise:
  Confirmed
Status in “unity-2d” source package in Precise:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  In unity-2d it seems that window borders are only 1 pixel wide and are therefore very difficult to grab for window resize.
  In 3D it seems that a shadow extends the width of the border so the problem does not occur.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: unity-2d 4.12.0-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Oct 19 14:33:44 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: unity-2d
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (4 days ago)

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