One of them is for resizing windows with your keyboard. Xfwm4, Xfce’s window manager, supports a number of keyboard shortcuts (which can be edited by going to the Settings Manager > Window Manager > Keyboard). It works intriguingly well and is a very nice complement to the easiest way of moving windows: holding Alt and left-click drag. Simply hold the Alt key, right-click somewhere inside the window and drag to resize. I’m tempted to say that once you got accustomed to this it’s hard to go back. This is maybe the easiest and most useful way of resizing windows. All the Gtk3 applications will have a resize grip in Greybird (Xubuntu’s default theme). Starting from 12.04, Gtk2 applications will have to use one of the other resizing methods for applications that don’t have a built-in resize grip. The regressions made Ubuntu developers drop the feature from 12.04. Unfortunately, this patch had some regressions for example, clicking OpenOffice’s resize grip would open the file menu. This would allow people to easily grab each window and resize it, even with theme with thin borders. Before 12.04 (Precise Pangolin), Ubuntu had patched Gtk2 to add these resize grips to all applications. Resize grips (usually small triangles) are positioned in the bottom right corner of a window, often as part of a statusbar. The five methods Method 1: Using the resize grip Usually people would ask for wider window-borders, but there are several methods of resizing a window and the thin borders in Xubuntu’s current default theme Greybird are not as much of a usability issue as some suggest. For quite a while now there has been questions about resizing windows in Xfce, especially with theme with narrow window-borders.
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