Resizing windows behaviour?

[Colin Law]

On 27 February 2016 at 13:06, ac <aec$news at candt.waitrose.com> wrote:
> Using Ubuntu 12.04 (updated) I suddenly find, presumably after a
> recent update (?), that when I resize displayed windows - using a left
> mouse click at one corner and drag, then BOTH sides of the window
> move, say, left & right, or top & bottom. Previous behaviour was that
> only the corner being actively grabbed and its associated boundaries,
> moved. I find the recent change, where now, both sides change
> position, pretty inconvenient. I need to resize windows to FIT a
> particular space, I never need to ONLY make a window smaller keeping
> its centre point still. It seems to me it is a Ubuntu change, not
> certain programs.
> Anyone know if this 'improved' (?) behaviour can be turned OFF please?

I have never seen that behaviour.  Are you sure you have not installed
something GUI related?  Something for doing pretty window effects or
tweaking things, or something like that?

I am assuming that you are using the standard Ubuntu, not one of the
flavours such as Kubuntu.

Colin