Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request

Hi :)
Sorry, good point.  You can 
Alt    click&drag
too.  It just didn't occur to me it might be useful.  Nice one Girvin! :)
Regards from 
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Girvin R. Herr <girvin.herr@sbcglobal.net>
> To: John R. Sowden <jsowden@americansentry.net> 
> Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Friday, 9 August 2013, 1:47
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request
>
>
> John,
> In Linux X/KDE, and I suppose Ubuntu too, you can use Alt-left-button to 
> drag windows beyond the desktop boundaries. Therefore, if your window is 
> outside the desktop at the bottom and you cannot get to that lower right 
> corner, place the mouse cursor anywhere in the window you wish to move 
> and use the alt-left-button to drag the whole window into the desktop 
> where you can get to that corner.  Then you should be able re-size the 
> window as you need.
>
> The pixel sensitivity sounds more like a desktop problem than an LO 
> problem.  I don't know what desktop you or Ubuntu uses, but there should 
> be an desktop settings option to adjust that mouse pointer sensitivity 
> to a number of pixels.  I just checked my KDE settings for the mouse and 
> it is set to 4 pixels.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Girvin Herr
>
>
> On 08/08/2013 03:28 PM, John R. Sowden wrote:
> > Similar to gedit (ubuntu), it would be nice if I could point my mouse 
> > _near_ the lower right corner to adjust the size of a libre office 
> > window, as opposed to placing the tip of the mouse pointer arrow on 
> > the pixel where the vertical and horizontal lines meet. Usually I 
> > cannot even get to the bottom, as it will ofter be off the screen.  
> > This is most obvious when attempting to bring the right side of the 
> > window in to the left.  The pointer is pixel sensitive. As the source 
> > for this is 'open' (as in gedit), I assume that this would not be a 
> > big deal.
> >
> > John
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