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don't know when this happened but it [finally] did! After years of pain... After hours of searching the web for a fix... After eons of inconvenience... They finally let users decide for themselves; how they wish to resize their windows in a stock gnome environment!Every software update was an adventure
Naturally it is possible to use other window-managers than metacity, but anyone who has ever tried to use non standard software in mainstream distributions know that it can be a bit tricky. Small interoperability problems start to rear their ugly heads and every software update becomes an adventure.
The problem has been solved by the editing of a simple gconf key;
/apps/metacity/general/resize_with_right_button.
Now you too can have Metacity window operations that work the way they were supposed to.