Comment 372 for bug 160311

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Aleve Sicofante <email address hidden> wrote:
> 2013/2/1 Sam Spilsbury <email address hidden>
>
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>> > There's no such thing in Unity. Mutter is used in Gnome Shell...
>> >
>>
>> gtk-window-decorator integrates with the mutter keys.
>>
>
> Lovely, but there's stil no "org.gnome.mutter:draggable-
> border-width" key in my Unity-only installation's dconf. Actually, there's
> nothing like org.gnome.mutter there.

Ah, I believe I made it so that if mutter wasn't installed, it just
uses the default value of 10px, as there was very little usecase for
making it configurable.

If you want to adjust it, you'll have to install mutter, and adjusting
that setting will adjust the draggable border width on both mutter and
unity.

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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 One Hundred Paper Cuts:
> Fix Released
> Status in The Metacity Window Manager:
> In Progress
> 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
>
> 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).
>
> *************
>
> 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)?
>
> *************
>
> *************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.
>
> *************
>
> Working grip backported to gtk2 already available in ppa :
> https://launchpad.net/~bratsche/+archive/gtk
>
> *************
>
> 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"/>
>
> ************
>
> 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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Sam Spilsbury