MATE: how to increase window resizing area
I use MATE on CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 15.04 and with both I have trouble resizing windows. It seems like I have to click on a 1px size line to change and that's a bit difficult with touchpad sometimes.
Is there any way that I can increase this area without graphically changing the thickness of the borders? If not, how can I change the thickness of the window borders?
Would be nice to know for both CentOS and Ubuntu but if I know one I'll be able to figure out the other one :)
Thanks in advance
I know I can change sensitivity for my touchpad but I prefer not to do that.
Answer taken from AskUbuntu question:
- This is a really old bug, still not fixed for metacity.
- One workaround is to use great combo Alt + "Hold Right Mouse Button" and resize window according to nearest border
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Another is to manually change theme border size. Default theme configuration file path:
/usr/share/themes/Ambiant-MATE/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml.Following parameters change borders width:
<distance name="left_width" value="1"/><distance name="right_width" value="1"/><distance name="bottom_height" value="1"/>
What's New in Mate 1.24 (https://mate-desktop.org/blog/) mentions:
Finally added invisible resize borders. No more struggling to find a border to grab with your mouse!
Unfortunately I can find no documentation about how you use this new feature. It's not in mate-tweak-ui as far as I can see.