Gnome: How do I increase the size of the grabbable area that allows me to resize the windows?

[mrodent]

this question from 2016 is about KDE... may be the reason why I don't see "Application Style" under System Settings --> Appearance. Or could be that things have changed.

I've managed to make the vertical scrollbars wider by fiddling with the files under usr/share/themes/Mint-X/gtk-* ... but I can't find how to make the "grabbable areas" for changing window size bigger.

PS: why are there two "types" of gtk (2 and 3)? Do certain components use one and others the other? How would I know which components are 2 and which are 3?

[sevendogs]

Are you attempting to resize a window in Gnome but having trouble clicking on the grab handle because it is thin?

Instead of that, I do this: all DEs and WMs, except Gnome, will allow you to hold the alt key and right mouse button and resize. You can do this at any point in the window and don't need to grab the resize handle or window border. To make this active in Gnome, run this in a terminal:

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gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences resize-with-right-button true

[AZgl1800]

@Schultz shows us how

viewtopic.php?f=206&t=265533#p1442526

I have mine set to 1/4 inch on the screen now

[mrodent]

@sevendogs neat, thanks. And the left button to move.

@AZgl1500 That's the thing I have managed to do on my own, as I said. In fact I found out what to do from that very thread. I was asking for something different.