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Comment by kstenerud | Hacker News Reader

I really wanted to like XFCE, but the tiny tiny window grab area for resizing is just too damn frustrating.

You can configure a window resize hotkey. I use Win+(drag the window with right mouse) and it resizes it i the way you expect, moving the corner closest to the cursor. Left click would move the window instead of resizing.

This is by far my favorite way to resize and I don't know why it's not an industry standard.

The default config for this is to use Alt+(right-click drag) to resize and Alt+(left-click drag) to move.

I use this so much once I found it, this solved my frustration with the tiny resize border on the window itself.

This setting can be found in Settings > Window Manager Tweaks > Accessibility > Key used to grab and move windows: Alt

I have deleted all window decorations and use F... keys to manipulate resize/move. But you could totally increase the height instead of deleting them

Yup, there are hacky workarounds, but what I'm after is the industry standard of grab areas that extend beyond the visible borders of the windows (which became more popular as high DPI monitors became the norm - and then Apple recently took to excess). And this is something the XFCE team have expressly said that they will NOT do.

And so I moved on to Mate.

I installed Fedora + gnome onnmy new Framework, it definitely works better out of the box, but i dislike the design :/

Should be easy to correct the default behavior for the next release if the issue is reported.

I learned to grab to resize windows in XFCE from upper right corner exactly because of this

It is configurable by theme or by changing something like bottom-active.xpm size.

alt-rightclick anywhere in the vague vicinity of a corner and you've grabbed it.

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