I frequently have the single-pixel resize handle problem. What's even more frustrating is that there seem to be at least two pixels that cause the cursor to change, so more often than not my first click doesn't actually start the resize. Sometimes I get to three or four unsuccessful attempts to resize my window and can't help but feel like I'm on Candid Camera.

That's one of my biggest gripes too. I sometimes use a tablet as an input device, and it's really hard to grab the edge of a window with the pen.

I feel your pain. While they fix it I found that doing 'ALT+SPACE' and then pressing 'R' helped me a bit. But yeah, three keys for something that should be intuitive..

I've always had to resort to right-clicking the title bar and hitting "Resize"; this shortcut to do the same thing is very helpful.

But I agree with everyone else in that it shouldn't be necessary to go through this just to resize windows, but I've always blamed myself for not learning awesome.

If you have a middle button, holding down alt while middle dragging gives a nice and easy resize that only requires you be within what seems to be 1/3 of the window's dimensions away from the border you want to resize.

I commented above on this...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2324771

having one pixel in which to get a resize going is the biggest pain in the ass on my netbook.