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Jamie Hutber
Asked: 2012-12-21 14:59:02 +0800 CST

How to enable alt+right click to resize window [duplicate]

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Been looking around and can't see to find any information on how to enable alt+right click for window resize?

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My mistake

Running Unity 12.04, I am logged in under failsafe graphics mode as i can't get my 590GX Nvidida card to boot up without being in safe, but thats another problem.

Currently, my alt+click works and i can drag windows around.

But i can't currently, alt+right-click to resize.

12.04

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Install compizconfig-settings-manager

    sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

    and run ccsm from the Dash or from a Terminal window.

    ccsm

    Click Window Management and Resize Window.

    For ? | Initiate Window Resize assign <Alt>Button3.

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  2. The answer from here describes a method that works in both 12.04 (and possibly older versions) as well as 12.10/13.04 with the new gsettings

    Put this in a script and run it:

    #!/bin/bash
gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/metacity/general/resize_with_right_button true
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences resize-with-right-button true

    The gconftool-2 line is for GConf based systems, and gsettings is its newer replacement.

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  3. Here is the solution I found:

    Use gconf-editor and set /apps/metacity/general: resize_with_right_button = true

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