GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 324183
Resize gives menu when titlebar outside of screen
Last modified: 2007-05-23 00:17:04 UTC
If you move a window (alt-drag) such that the titlebar is outside the screen, then clicking on the bottom-right corner for resize instead pops up a window menu. I'm using 2.13.5 on fc rawhide.
Yup, it's intentional. I know it might be slightly suboptimal for users familar with alt+f7 and/or alt-left-drag to move windows, but the alternative is unrecoverable windows for users who don't know about those features. This feature is just a measure to help those users (the ones who don't know about alt+f7 or alt-left-drag for moving) recover their window if they get their titlebar offscreen (or had a friend who got it offscreen for them)--there's a long explanation in http://mail.gnome.org/archives/metacity-devel-list/2005-November/msg00050.html (search for "MENU_OP_RECOVER" and read that long section). You can use alt+f8 or alt-middle-click (or select the resize option in the menu that pops up) to resize under these circumstances.
*** Bug 338704 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 440380 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
how about preserving the functionality as it should be, and make a yellow note appear, after one hovers the pointer over the window with the hidden title bar, that moving is possible with alt-left-drag, or that they should go to the left-right border and right click. If you start this way, there is no end to the functionality bending, and you are gonna end up with gnoindows asking three time "close that? -> yes/no", "you'll lose data! ok/cancel" "bet you don't! -> 5$/50$". What if someone hides the window for fun? ok, let's don't resize instead! What next? What if someone formats the disk? oh, let's have it dd'd at a backup partition? lol