Hard to grab edge for resize

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kenny1987
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Hard to grab edge for resize

Post by kenny1987 »

Hi everyone I tried to find similar problem on the forum but unfortunately didn't match anything :roll:

I am having real difficulties to grab window edge for resizing it's really frustrating especially when windows doesn't have any corner resizer
e.g Soap-ui or chromium. I am not using any theme does anybody know any settings which would increase edge size ?
seppalta
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Re: Hard to grab edge for resize

Post by seppalta »

The theme determines edge size and corner handle. Try different themes.
drooly
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Re: Hard to grab edge for resize

Post by drooly »

here's a theme that has 4 openbox theme variations.
all of them have a 3px border width; that is enough for me to resize the window comfortably on all 4 edges.
additionally, it is also possible to increase the size of the window handle (that's along the bottom edge).

resources:

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border.Width: ...
window.handle.width: ...
http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Themes
kenny1987
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Re: Hard to grab edge for resize

Post by kenny1987 »

Thanks for answers I will try it out
kenny1987
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Re: Hard to grab edge for resize

Post by kenny1987 »

I have increased border.width from 1 to 3 in my current used theme

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sudo vim /usr/share/themes/Syscrash/openbox-3/themerc 
Thanks for help
drooly
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Re: Hard to grab edge for resize

Post by drooly »

^ nice you figured it out (and with vim!), but a word of warning:
do not edit system files under /usr.
best case scenario, it will get overwritten after an update.
worst case scenario, your system becomes unusable.
instead, copy the theme to ~/.local/share/themes/syscrash-mine and edit there.
obtheme should find it there.
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