Re: FVWM: no borders for inactive windows

From: Cameron Simpson <cs_at_zip.com.au>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:48:16 +1000

On 10:30 02 Apr 2003, Erik Steffl <steffl_at_bigfoot.com> wrote:
| Cameron Simpson wrote:
| ><Klaus.Umbach_at_doppelhertz.homelinux.org> wrote:
| >| On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 11:41:00PM +0200, martin sepulveda wrote:
| >| > for many years i've used (and still use) borderless windows only.
| >| well, borders for active windows are usefull to resize them manualy (if
| >| usefull - normaly fvwm does that for me)
| >
| >Personally I find aiming at borders very tedious. I have alt-mouse-1 bound
| >to Resize in the Window context, and no borders at all. Aiming is _much_
| >easier (indeed, with focus-follows-mouse much of the time I don't need
| >to aim at all because the mouse is already there because I'm thinking
| >about that window already).
| >
| I used to have the side button on logitech mouse reserved for 'whole
| window' operations (click = raise/lower, drag = move, drag with window
| key = resize)

Neat.

| another way: find right click in title and drag tobe useful for resizing.
| having to hit the borders is pretty annoying... even more so when you
| have auto-raise:-)

Ouch. Of course, I find even aiming at title bars annoying. WHich is one
reason I don't have them, either.

Cheers,
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