Comment 6 for bug 282013

I just did an upgrade/restart, and it's still present, but not quite as straightforward as I initially described (I don't think it changed, just my knowledge of it has). If you mouse all over the handle area and note what triggers the drag cursor and what doesn't it may be more evident. It does also seem to be a general GTK issue and not just Nautilus. I've noticed it in X-Chat GNOME now as well, but not Firefox, but I suspect not Firefox because it's not "really" a GTK app. I'm not entirely sure about this either, but resizing via the window border may "reset" the corner drag handle. Also, sometimes the drag handle will appear to work just fine a few repetitions in a row, but then break. My best advice for reproducing it is to just sit there with a Nautilus window and resize it over and over to completely different sizes, mousing over large portions of the drag handle each time to note where it does or does not register.

It may sound like a trivial bug, but more often than not it seems to break for me, and I tended to have to resize windows more than once in a row with the default Compiz configuration of only showing the blue rectangle outline of a window rather than resizing the actual window in-place.