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Contributor Ansible on the Look and Feel category

Make it easier to resize windows.  
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Written by Abatrour the 2 Mar 08 at 20:21. Global category: Look and Feel. New
I find it hard to resize windows. The borders are not big enough to grab easily. I think it would be good if there was an extra invisible gap of a few pixels around the borders that you can grab on to so you don't have to visually make the borders thicker.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #2571
Written by Abatrour the 2 Mar 08 at 20:21.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #2571 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!
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Solution #2: Increase border width for resizing windows
Written by ruru the 6 Aug 10 at 10:06.
A lot of comments have mentioned this, but no-one has suggested it as a solution. The width of the target region on window borders where the cursor becomes active for resizing is ridiculously small. Alternative solutions are to resize the borders (which looks ugly and wastes screen space) or use Alt-mouse click (which requires two-handed input). A much more elegant solution would be to simply increase the portion of the window border that is responsive to resizing gestures. This could be added as an option.
This appears to be a papercut that would significantly enhance useability for very little programmer input.
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Solution #3: Add a theme-independent GUI-based configuration option to Ubuntu
Written by benshadwick the 16 Oct 10 at 22:32.
There should be a configuration option added to Ubuntu's GUI-based system configuration controls that allows end-users to easily change the thickness of the area around windows that users can grab with the mouse to resize them.
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Solution #4: Make resize area around edges of windows larger
Written by kramer65 the 4 Mar 09 at 10:31.
Make the area around the edges of windows in which the pointer changes to the resize thingy a lot larger.

This doesn't mean that the border needs to be thicker, but just that the area in which your mouse pointer changes becomes bigger..
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Solution #5: Make the corner resize area larger, eliminate the border
Written by tgm4883 the 4 Mar 09 at 15:51.
Aesthetically speaking, the borders are going away. Making a resize area in the lower right hand corner a little larger (or in all corners) might help rectify this problem.
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Solution #6: Use Alt+middle mouse button
Written by arune the 5 Mar 09 at 09:58.
Clicking in the corner is not necessary on Ubuntu, just hold Alt and middle mouse button on the window to resize it. You dont have to be in the corner, just near a corner.

You can also use Alt and left mouse button to move the window.
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Solution #7: Make the resize cursor bigger on resize operation
Written by OpenNingia the 5 Mar 09 at 13:04.
when mousing over the corner enlarge the mouse pointer to make clean the resize operation
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Solution #8: Windows key enhanced windows operations
Written by Craig73 the 21 Mar 09 at 19:55.
Press the Windows key and have all actions more window management oriented.

Windows + near border = resize area more pronounced

plus

Windows + doubleclick the border = maximize window in that direction (ie - double click top maximizes vertically)
Windows + drag = move window (replace ALT+drag)
Windows + up/down arrow = min/maximize

etc.
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Solution #9: Fix window managers to support smaller borders
Written by dilomo the 11 Jun 09 at 12:42.
That would solve all the issues we have now.
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Solution #10: snap to border and apply if drag
Written by heltonbiker the 2 Feb 10 at 04:22.
a zone around window borders could be created with a "mouseover" sensitivity, changing the mouse icon to the resizing arrows, and if the user clicks AND DRAGS near the borders, the window would be resized. It wouldn't increase width neither create dead space on desktop.
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Solution #11: Add a fourth window button
Written by oldarney the 19 Apr 11 at 06:44.
beside the minimise button, have a resize button. Make it work like the resize window option already works (r-click the window title bar and click resize.)
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Solution #12: Fuzzy corner to dag window to the size you want
Written by vwz11p@tpg.com.au the 17 Mar 12 at 11:21.
Fuzzy corner to dag window to the size you want

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Always open application in workspace where it was started  
Written by Ansible the 22 Mar 08 at 22:29. Global category: Look and Feel. Not an idea
I mainly see this with Eclipse, but it also happens with OpenOffice. What happens is this: I'm in workspace A looking at my email. I decide to start Eclipse in workspace B. The Eclipse splash screen appears and I flip back to workspace A again, because eclipse takes a while to start. After a while the eclipse main window comes up on top of my email program, in workspace A. Then I have to drag it over to workspace B, where I wanted it to appear. I would prefer that it come up in the workspade where I started it.

OpenOffice has a similar result, but GIMP will actually pull you over to workspace B when it comes up. That's kind of cool, but behavior is inconsistent between GIMP and OpenOffice or Eclipse.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #5448
Written by Ansible the 22 Mar 08 at 22:29.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #5448 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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Remove Nvidia logo from startup when using restricted drivers  
Written by Ape the 5 Apr 08 at 05:59. Global category: Look and Feel. Already implemented
There is that annoying Nvidia ad every time I boot X. That comes with the restricted drivers. It would be better without the Nvidia logo.


EDIT:
It can be manually disabled with

Option "NoLogo" "True"

in xorg.conf, but the logo should be disabled by default.

EDIT2: This idea has been implemented on the newest drivers. Please mark this idea as done.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #6420
Written by Ape the 5 Apr 08 at 05:59.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #6420 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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