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Ubuntu with MATE works as well.

I used Xubuntu for a while but I was always fascinated by how bad a couple aspects of XFCE are. They maintain documentation [1] on oddball ways of resizing windows instead of just giving people what they want. I suspect MATE just does what most people want out of the box.

[1] https://xubuntu.org/news/window-resizing-in-xubuntu-and-xfce...

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To their credit, the Alt+RMB method for resizing windows is, along with Alt+LMB for moving windows, really amazing. I get annoyed when I have to go back to the old way on my Mac and Windows systems.

I agree! I started using alt+rmb because I couldn't resize windows the normal way, because of the minimal xfce windowing chrome. Found this way as a workaround and now I can't really live without it. I agree, Windows/Mac window resizing now feels like handling a cumbersome dinosaur :-)

I get where you guys are coming from on this. The problem is more acute for those of us who switch between two or three different OSes as a matter of course and spend the least amount of time in Linux. That's where something like MATE really shines.

BetterTouchTool can do moving and resizing on macos, I've got them set to "FN+control" and "FN+control+option". Still haven't found anything good for Windows.

https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/

I've used this when I need to use Windows. Works well enough.

Another keyboard-only method which I haven't seen mentioned yet, that I learned in Windows but seems to work well even in Linux, is to press alt+space and then

  'm' followed by arrow keys to move the window around, or
  'r' followed by arrow keys to resize the window

For people like me on laptops with trackpads, these keyboard shortcuts work really well.

Fortunately gnome 3 people fixed this by removing all mnemonics, so you can only use the arrow keys to navigate the window menu.

I just ended up making a bunch of keyboard shortcuts with the Windows-key.

  Win+R -> Resize
  Win+M -> Move
  Win+A -> All desktops
  Win+Q -> Stay on top
  Win+H -> Hide
  Win+Arrow -> change workspace
  Win+Shift+Arrow -> Carry focused window to workspace

etc.

This works so well for me that I completely removed all the buttons from the window manager since I no longer need to access them anymore.

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