XFCE Wide Borders Themes for Resizing Windows
One of the small annoyances about not only XFCE, but some other desktops, particularly in Linux Mint (but defintely NOT limited to Mint) is that for some reason the writers of 'Themes' have decided that people no longer want to use the Mouse to resize windows on the desktop.
So rather than clicking a button on a corner of a window holding the left button down and dragging to resize, we are forced to use the 'Right Click somewhere within a third of the distance to a corner, Hold the ALT key, then drag, because the default border on most themes seems to be only about 1 pixel wide.
This is ridiculous on modern higher DPI displays where users find themselves spending half an hour or so trying unsuccessfully to grab a side or corner of a window.
Luckily, there are still a few people in the computing world who have a functioning brain.
One of these people is darktrick who added a handy XFCE theme at pling .com that provides considerably more than the 1px border common on most themes these days.
This is what that theme adds (my mouse cursor is 'Red' and on the bottom corner where two nice, wide, easy to grab borders meet.
Works well and saves so much time and frustration!
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