[Sussex] Ubuntu Alt-Resize

[Geoffrey J. Teale]

Ronan Chilvers <ronan at thelittledot.com> writes:

> Hi folks
>
> Well Ubuntu is fab !  I'm converted!!  However I have one little niggle
> which one of you ubuntoers might have cracked.  In Mandrake I used the
> alt-mouse-resize shortcut ALL the time and can't find how to get it back
> in Gnome (used to use KDE - prefer Gnome now).  I can ALT-mouse-drag but
> not ALT-mouse-resize.

Sorry, I don't think you can do this with Metacity (GNOME's default
WM).  You setup the alt-drag thing via the
System->Preferences->Windows dialog, but I've not seen an option for
resizing.

One way may be to swap metacity for Sawfish, or some other WM that can
be used in GNOME.

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Geoff Teale
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