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If someone somehow enlarge the 1px handle for windows resizing by default (not default theme) I can say 'it's perfect'.

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That is not XFCE itself, that is up to your theme. I'm on the Dracula theme and have about 16 pixels.

Are there any themes that allow changing window border size, title bar size, scrollbar width etc, like win 9x?

My scrollbar changes in Debian:

1. as root, edit /etc/environment and add: GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0

2. in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css add: .scrollbar.vertical slider, scrollbar.vertical slider {min-width: 10px;}

Here is a reference regarding window borders: https://mxlinux.org/wiki/xfce/changing-border-size-with-xfce...

The workaround for me is to always resize by clicking Alt, right click, and drag. At the end of the day, that's probably just straight up easier, since you never need to bother getting close to the borders of the windows.

I recommend changing the key to Super. As holding down Alt and clicking/dragging is often used by many applications and simply won't work then.

I just learned that you can use Super + Left Mouse to drag windows around and Super + Right Mouse to resize, due to this discussion. I have been using XFCE forever, mostly using hotkeys for tilling, and just did not know :D

Thanks !

Huh, I'm over 10 years in and didn't know about the rightclick-resize either. I really like it! Thanks!

Yes, it is best to use Meta/Windows key for system related actions (copy/paste, screenshot, application start, various windowing actions), and let Ctrl and Alt be used by the applications.

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