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compiz package

Compiz's corner resize grabbers are difficult to get hold of

Bug #91780 reported by Alexander Jones on 2007-03-12

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Compiz	Fix Released	Unknown	compiz-plugins #580
	compiz (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Compiz only uses the extreme corners of windows for corner-resizing. Compare this to Metacity, which allows you to corner-resize from a few more pixels up the sides and across the top and bottom, making it much easier.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 12 22:37:53 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux flash 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote on 2007-03-12:

Assigning to package. Sorry I forgot this.

Mark Reitblatt (mark-reitblatt) on 2007-03-21

Changed in compiz:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

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Bartek (tschew) wrote on 2007-10-21:

This should not be a wishlist bug! This makes themes without a visible border almost completely unusable in compiz.

If the metacity theme xml file in the section "frame_geometry" defines "left_width" and "right_width" as 1 or 0, the window becomes very difficult (1) or impossible (0) to resize.

Bartek (tschew) on 2007-10-25

Changed in compiz:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Johan Walles (walles) wrote on 2007-10-30:

I want this re-triaged and either:
1. Not be classified as wishlist or
2. Be classified as wishlist with a comment describing why it got a wishlist classification.

Resizing windows was easy in Metacity. Now it is much more difficult. So this is a usability regression from Metacity. Having a window manager that makes resizing windows tricky is a bug IMO, if anybody at Ubuntu feels differently I'd love to hear your opinion.

Changed in compiz:
status:	Confirmed → New

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2007-11-02

Changed in compiz:
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2007-11-03

Changed in compiz:
status:	Confirmed → In Progress

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Travis Watkins (amaranth) wrote on 2007-11-14:

It was marked as wishlist because it's a feature request. I'm mark it as Low instead. I'm only using Low because it only affects the corner resize, any problems you have with edge resize is most likely bug 160311.

Changed in compiz:
importance:	Wishlist → Low

Travis Watkins (amaranth) on 2008-02-18

Changed in compiz:
status:	New → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-05-10

Changed in compiz:
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

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M Hickford (hickford) wrote on 2008-05-24:

Is this fixed?

I have this problem in hardy. Enable desktop effects, an instead of a reasonable 10/20 pixels around the corner, you have the grab right at the corner to be able to resize.

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Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote on 2008-05-24: Re: [Bug 91780] Re: Compiz's corner resize grabbers are difficult to get hold of