GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 569242
Window resize difficult
Last modified: 2009-01-26 21:18:00 UTC
In GNOME desktop, one must choose between ALT-middle mouse click and ALT-F8. These are both extremely poor choices for me. Not only are the function buttons are far away and out of reach on most keyboards, but it is a very slow process to resize a window with the keyboard only. Enter the mouse. On many window managers I can think of, the keyboard + mouse binding for window resize is ALT-right mouse click and drag, or is configurable. For some reason, GNOME is trying to make me use the middle mouse button. This is terrible for usability. On my laptop, and many others, there are only two mouse buttons. It is very difficult for me, with my apparently limited manual dexterity, to press and hold ALT while also chording both mouse buttons, and then magically drag the window to resize. Let's say I have an external mouse on this laptop, or I'm using a desktop. Guess what, the odds are very high that this is a wheel mouse. Perhaps I have very low quality mice in my menagerie, but I have a hard time holding down the middle mouse button while dragging without also scrolling. The scrolling (counted as a button 4 or 5 press) cancels the resize operation, and my frustration mounts. Please, oh please, give me the choice for which accelerator I use. Or tell me where to start in the source code so that I can change it myself. Other information: See also: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/8473/ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/human-gtk-theme/+bug/160311
Is this a duplicate of bug 437910, which is about to be committed and closed, or am I misunderstanding?
(Or is it a duplicate of bug 496536, a patch for which is given on the Launchpad page you link to?)
Yes, I'm glad to find that it is indeed a dupe of bug 437910. My bug search was apparently not very well executed, and I shall flog myself appropriately. Thanks for your time. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 437910 ***