How can I make the draggable window border thicker, without changing the appearance?

Posted by Bruce Connor on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Bruce Connor
Published on 2010-10-20T15:09:33Z Indexed on 2010/12/27 21:00 UTC
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When you want to resize a window in gnome (as well as in other systems) you can click-and-hold at the window's border and than drag it. The problem is (and do correct me if I'm wrong here) that the draggable border is just a couple of pixels thick in gnome. That tends to be a little frustrating, and contributes to my wrist pains from using the mouse, as it requires very careful movement of the mouse.

How can I change the thickness of the area I can click in order to resize a window? I don't want to increase the appearance of the window border, I'm not talking about eye candy here. I want to fine tune this functionality where I can resize a window by dragging its border.

Is there a setting somewhere that will change this?

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