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[Benjamin Humphrey <humphreybc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Of course the simple fix is to just add in a few pixels of virtual,
invisible grab space around the corner of the window.

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Benjamin Humphrey <humphreybc@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Meant to send this to everyone but ended up sending it to Alex only:
>
> Alex,
>
> Ha! The theme I use, and the new default themes, certainly make it very
> hard to resize windows. It appears there is only 1px x 1px grab area in
> Lucid. There's a bug report somewhere that I was reading a few weeks ago...
>
>
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Gavin Langdon <puttabutta@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Luke Morton <luke.morton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Ambiance has a 1px border on the left and right--I don't think that's
>>> enough to negate the case for a resize grip. As to your example, I find
>>> resizing the terminal to be particularly frustrating.
>>
>>
>> The tiny border is EXTREMELY annoying on my laptop in particular, as I
>> lack the dexterity of a mouse when using the nub or trackpad (also holding
>> down alt and the middle key while dragging is way out of the question on a
>> laptop). It generally takes me about 3 or 4 seconds to find the draggable
>> edge (and that's a lot of time compared to the split-second process it is
>> for other decorators). Though it's nice to have flush themes, resizing
>> really doesn't work with anything less than 3 pixels.
>>
>> Would be that hard to modify the window manager to watch the outer 5
>> pixels regardless of decorator border? That would result in a considerably
>> easier experience. If this were the case standard widgets could take
>> priority if they're close to the edge (although a good gui designer
>> shouldn't have anything too close to the edge anyway)
>>
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