Resizing windows in LXDE on a Raspberry Pi

This is quite a short post, but hopefully a helpful one!

I spend most of my time working with my Raspberry Pi on SSH remotely, rather than actually using a Window Manager, but every now and again I have the need to use LXDE (which is the window manager that Raspbian comes with).

Until today, one thing had always frustrated me in LXDE, and that was how unbelievably hard it is to resize a window when the area that you need to grab with your mouse is only one pixel wide. There are many different ways to fix this, but today I learnt something new which I felt was worthy of it’s own (short) post.

Alt+R-Click (then drag) will resize the window

Alt+L-Click (then drag) will move a window

You can do this anywhere on the window, without the need to find the tiny one pixel border around the window!

This is one of a series of posts I've written about the Raspberry Pi. Why not read some other Raspberry Pi related posts?