Just a note for anyone finding this that Alt+F8 can be used to grab the border for re-sizing and Alt+F7 for moving.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878198 Title: Difficult to grab window borders in unity-2d Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “unity-2d” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “metacity” source package in Precise: Triaged Status in “unity-2d” source package in Precise: Invalid Bug description: In unity-2d it seems that window borders are only 1 pixel wide and are therefore very difficult to grab for window resize. In 3D it seems that a shadow extends the width of the border so the problem does not occur. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: unity-2d 4.12.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Oct 19 14:33:44 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: unity-2d UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (4 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/878198/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp