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> Some people are talking about holding a key to resize on Linux but I don't want to be forced to use the keyboard.

You don't have to use your keyboard.

For example I never use my mouse's DPI button which is a little button next to the wheel mouse. You can remap that to whatever key you need to hold to resize a window and now you have a fully mouse driven solution for resizing.

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See, that makes sense to me. Build it all into one device, super simple, super clever.

For me who always uses a Magic Trackpad, doing gestures is the equivalent to holding down that wee button. So I think we see eye on eye on this.

It's the people who can't imagine that you'd ever have your hands away from the keyboard, so everything that could reasonably be done with a keyboard can and must be done with a keyboard, who get up my back.

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