OGEnthusiast 2 days ago

I actually wish macOS would clone Alt-dragging from anywhere to drag and Alt-right clicking to resize from anywhere from Linux (at least GNOME and KDE Plasma have this built-in). That would certainly solve most of the complaints in the original post.

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  • duskwuff 2 days ago

    macOS has Cmd + Ctrl + drag to move windows. Alt + drag seems unlikely given that it's already often used for "copy" actions.

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    • OGEnthusiast 2 days ago

      I just tried that on Tahoe (26.2) and it didn't drag the window with Ctrl+Cmd+drag. Is it supposed to work on all windows?

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      • duskwuff 2 days ago

        Oddly, the one thing it doesn't work on for me is the main area of the System Preferences window. Everything else I've tried seems to work, though.

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oxguy3 2 days ago

*GNOME features, not Linux features. No such issues over here on KDE.

I have often felt like GNOME is the most Apple-y of desktop environments; they're very form over function. Not surprising to me at all that both would pick a design that seems beautiful until you try to use it.

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  • pwg 2 days ago

    Indeed, no such "invisible drag areas" here either using just FVWM2.

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Nextgrid 2 days ago

Shortly after Windows 10 came out I was joking that Microsoft finally made a Linux distribution (by replicating all the jankiness we usually associate with it).

Now I guess it's Apple's turn.

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Rygian 2 days ago

Wait, they implemented Alt-Drag/Right drag?

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  • chungy 2 days ago

    I believe the parent is referring to how GNOME 3.0 had some really bad resizing grabs. Single-pixel widths at the edges, and almost impossible to hit corners.

    Latter versions significantly improved it.

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    • jasonvorhe 2 days ago

      Has been a major issue for me with Xfce and Gnome over the years, mostly just switched window managers.

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      • jwrallie 2 days ago

        Xfce is just ridiculous, it has 1px thin area to grab, and last time I checked they just mentioned you should use alt right click instead.

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        • ginko a day ago

          I was about to suggest Xfce as an example where window resizing is effortless due to the <super>+<right click> behavior. You can just grab the rough sector of a window to resize it.

          Any reason why you're not using it?

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  • duskwuff 2 days ago

    Sort of! Cmd + Ctrl + drag moves windows now.

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