Resizing Sensitive Window Corner for IceWM and other window managers

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

From skidoo, reference an older thread @

Resizing Sensitive Window Corner

“the very sensitive […] window corner”

(the following “tip” is not specific to antiX, nor specific to any particular window manager)

While mouse pointer is over any application window, press and hold Alt key, and press and hold RightMouseButton…
and notice that moving your mouse causes the window to be resized.
This spares you from having to target and grab the exact window corner (handle).

Top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right ~~
whichever quadrant of the window your mouse cursor is hovering when you initiate the resize,
the result is same as if you had moused to and dragged by using the exact corner

Thanks to skidoo for this excellent tip!

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Brian Masinick

[Moderator BobC]

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If it is a GTK2 window, I think this section added to ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine might help:

style "default-style"
{
        GtkWindow::resize-grip-height = 4
        GtkWindow::resize-grip-width = 4
}
class "GtkWidget" style "default-style"

If this is for a GTK3 window, I think this section added to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini might help:

style "default-style"
{
        GtkWindow::resize-grip-height = 4
        GtkWindow::resize-grip-width = 4
}
class "GtkWidget" style "default-style"

If they don’t help, please let me know and might as well delete the post…

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by BobC.

[Member Valter Cardoso]

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I tried it on AntiX 19.4 – 64 Bit, with icewm but had no joy.

Alt right mouse button is a sound strategy but what I really want is a bigger area to resize the window on left mouse click.

Your thoughts are welcome.

Thanks.

[Moderator BobC]

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Try changing your IceWM theme to the one shown. You need to click the picture to see the bottom of it. If you don’t have that theme, there is a copy of it in a zip file attached to a post on the forum, here.

• This reply was modified 7 months, 4 weeks ago by BobC.

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