Comment 39 for bug 558327

I am afraid you are slightly mistaken. In the default configuration, you
used to be able to throw the mouse to the right edge of the screen and only
aim vertically for the close button. While this is more difficult than
throwing the mouse to the corner, it is significantly easier than aiming a
16x16 area as we currently must.

Please note that this issue is less apparent the smaller the screen area is.
It is (almost) a non-issue on a 1280x800 laptop monitor but it is most
definitely an issue on a 1920x1200 or 2560x1600 monitor - and doubly so when
using multiple monitors.

For what it's worth, the "New Wave" theme does not suffer from this issue,
so a simple, temporary workaround exists.

2010/7/22 Mark Shuttleworth <email address hidden>

> On 21/07/10 23:29, inane wrote:
> > Ok, I'd like to chime in here a moment, this whole not being able to
> > throw my mouse into the corner is amazing asinine, this is a behavior
> > that I have come to know and love for YEARS now with GNOME, and it's
> > gone without even the option to set it back.
> >
>
> I take it then that you've been using a custom panel configuration?
> Because in the default Ubuntu config, the top left corner has the
> Applications menu in it, and the top right corner has the Session menu
> in it.
>
> In other words, the "throw it in the corner and click to close the
> window" capability is not a feature of Ubuntu pre 9.10.
>
> Our position on this is that the corner is reserved for access to
> applications, or shutting down the machine. If you want to close the
> window you need to click on the button for closing the window.
>
> Mark
>
> --
> Window close button is clickable anywhere in the corner
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/558327
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> Status in “light-themes” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: light-themes
>
> The close button, now that it is in the corner, is too clickable because it
> is possible to click anywhere to the left of it and still activate it. That
> makes the close button quite a bit larger than the other two buttons, when
> it should be the same size. The space to the left of the button, between the
> button and the edge of the window, should not be clickable.
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