Re: [Usability] Discoverable off-screen window dragging



On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 07:05 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2007 4:51 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com> wrote:
> > On Nov 29, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
> > > ...
> > > Which made me wonder if there's a more discoverable way of moving
> > > windows around when they're too big/partially off-screen.
> > > ...
> >
> > Sure there is. Make a window movable by dragging not just the title
> > bar, but *any* part of it that doesn't contain something else
> > clickable.
> 
> Unfortunately, the WM currently has no way of determining whether a
> given pixel position corresponds to something clickable in a window.
> That happens to be part of the nasty drag and drop problem[1].

Matchbox lets you move dialogs by dragging the window , but maybe there
are edge cases it doesn't work for.  I always assumed it dragged the
window around if the frame received the events, as otherwise some other
X window would have eaten the events.

Amusingly I just discovered by asking mallum for details that this
behaviour is actually a bug, when for the last two years I thought it
was a great feature.

Ross
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