Re: [e-users] E17 has advantages BUT [ resizing windows ]

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jt...@tt...>]

It would appear that on Feb 20, Carsten Haitzler did say:

> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:03:22 -0500 "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <jt...@tt...>
> said:
> 
> > 
> > I really miss the way kde & even windblows let me select a resize
> > option from the win-ops menu and then use the arrow keys to resize
> > said window... (hitting enter when I'm happy with the result)
> > 
> > How do you do this with e17?????????
> 
> if you want to resize with the keyboard... just bind a key (as opposed to
> mouse button) and use thhat keybinding to start resize and then it will
> use they keyboard for resize (arrow keys, escape to finish resize). check
> keybindings config dialog. same for move.

That worked nicely... Though I find that esc cancels and enter
confirms the move or resize... (though That might have to do with the
detour theme I added to to enable keyboard manipulation of various
pop-ups such as the logout confirmation box????)

> as for resize with mouse on "lower corner" this is how e17 work by
> default out of the box - same thing. bottom right - u'll get a mouse
> cursor change when over the resize control, click and drag to resize. the
> bottom, bottom right and bottom left resize in different directions. same
> with top, top-left and top-right. e17's default theme has no left/right
> borders so you cant do that there.

Well maybe that's also to do with "detour" theme, But I couldn't find
the sweet spot for the vertical resize either. At least not with the
window boarders I'm getting by default with kde applications.  Moot point
though as I much prefer to use the keyboard for that anyhow. 

Speaking of which. I can now confirm what I said in that other thread
about being able to get at the part of an application window that
extends into a virtual desktop from a neighboring desktop...

The keyboard move option does in fact let my slide an oversized
application window arbitrarily up or left until I can get at whatever
had been extended past the desktop boarder...

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