Resizing with mouse by clicking window edges is difficult, due to small borders

[karl anliot]

I believe there is only 1 pixel to click on when resizing windows with the
mouse (clicking edge of the window) This has become rather painful for me.
Please allow me to "grab" nearby pixels.

There are workarounds such as increasing border size, but since KDE has this feature, it's a very ugly workaround.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: openbox 3.5.0-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 20 17:28:45 2012
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Marcin Wojdyr (wojdyr)]

another workaround is to use alt + right mouse button, but of course it would be good to resize it easily just with mouse

[Mélodie (meets)]

What about configuring another theme for Openbox? :-|

[karl anliot (kanliot)]

The openbox developers are insisting that the visual border size is the
same thing as the area you must position the mouse pointer over to drag.
On other platforms this isn't true. And in practice, increasing the visual
border size to a to a clickable size makes my windows look bad.

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Mélodie <email address hidden> wrote:

> What about configuring another theme for Openbox? :-|
>
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> Title:
> Resizing with mouse by clicking window edges is difficult, due to
> small borders
>
> Status in OpenBox window manager:
> Won't Fix
> Status in “openbox” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> I believe there is only 1 pixel to click on when resizing windows with
> the
> mouse (clicking edge of the window) This has become rather painful for
> me.
> Please allow me to "grab" nearby pixels.
>
> There are workarounds such as increasing border size, but since KDE
> has this feature, it's a very ugly workaround.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
> Package: openbox 3.5.0-2ubuntu2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24
> Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
> ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Mon Aug 20 17:28:45 2012
> InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64
> (20120423)
> ProcEnviron:
> TERM=xterm
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: openbox
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

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