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Window resize borders are too thin #628

Closed Vrihub closed 2 years ago

Vrihub commented 2 years ago

I find it difficult to resize windows, when moving the mouse pointer onto the border window one has to be very precise, the "active area" (where the pointer enters "resize mode") is only some pixels wide, too thin.

Is there a way to enlarge that area? I tried changing BorderSizeX and BorderSizeY but it seems they have no effect.

gijsbers commented 2 years ago

How and where did you define BorderSizeX? Which places of definition did you consider? Why not more?

gijsbers commented 2 years ago

Themes with wide borders include Sky, NanoBlue, Illuminate-ice, Aalglatt, DC-macdebian, xfvwm, CoolSteel.

Vrihub commented 2 years ago

How and where did you define BorderSizeX?

I found it in the ~/.icewm/preferences file

Themes with wide borders include Sky, NanoBlue, Illuminate-ice, Aalglatt, DC-macdebian, xfvwm, CoolSteel.

Uhm, I didn't noticed they were part of the Themable preferences section, so I have to put them in ~/.icewm/prefoverride. Ok.

The problem with these is that they also draw a visible thicker border around the window, changing the window position/size which is bad for some of my applications, leaving the actual visible border unchanged.

I think there should be a way to configure only the "logical" area that activates the window resizing feature.

gijsbers commented 2 years ago

You could also use KeyWinSize and MouseWinSize. They work very well, but take a little getting use to.

We can't add a logical area, because applications use those mouse events too.