GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 346347
resize maximized window using alt+middle mouse button
Last modified: 2020-11-07 12:36:41 UTC
It would be great if a maximized window could be resized using the usual alt+middle mouse button action. Right now, resizing a maximized window needs 2 actions: Restore it somehow, then resize. I asked for this feature already about a year ago in #304927 but that one got lost in a discussion about the usefulness of the "shake loose" feature.
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I would like to add that it is strang that on a maximized window, holding alt+middle mouse button and dragging, the mouse cursor actually changes to a "resize" cursor. But it doesn't do anything. That's a confusing :)
I just noticed that this sometimes works, but not reliably at all. Sometimes not even the mouse cursor changes its appearance.
I'm very often encountering this issue and would really like to be able to just alt-resize whenever. I found this issue but also this relatively recent Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/3vhjy9/how_do_i_resize_window_after_snapping_it_to_the/ It basically references this change *1 (from 2015) that removed this feature (though this issue here is from way before then, so apparently it was once added and this issue not updated) because it was in the way of changes and supposedly rarely used. The changes that it was in the way of is *2, tackled end of 2017. The Reddit post mentions that *2 might reintroduce this feature but apparently it didn't. *1 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/commit/91b7dedf368c6f70817849a324c0fd8ad6b8ccf3 *2 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751857
Both links are about mutter, but this bug is about metacity...
Oh boy. How useless I am. Sorry for the spam!
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