> The resize cursor will appear (and seem to lock on for an annoying
> amount of time) whenever you move the pointer over a suitable place -
> or more precisely when a mouse move event is handled with the position
> set right. Depending on how your machine's OS deals with events and how
> well the VM passes them up and how well specific image you are running
> is feeling it can appear to lock up quite firmly for a second or more.
> I've seen this on all my macs, on my (ex)windows laptop and my RISC OS
> box. It's worst on ROS because it's relatively slow but it can be very
> annoying even on a 1.5GHz pBook.

Thankfully that doesn't happen at all on my 1.3GHz WinXP machine, it would
indeed be very annoying.

> As a positive suggestion I will throw out the idea of NOT having the
> normal motion of the cursor activate the resize but using some meta-key
> action (just as an example, ctl-mousebutton) to
> a) activate the resize areas
> b) EXPAND them to make the easier to hit just while the meta-action is
> alive.

Is "a" something to avoid the annoying pauses?  If the pauses could be
completely eliminated on all platforms maybe you wouldn't care about the
meta-key..  Unfortunately it sounds like it is an issue in low-level
event-handling and not trivial to fix..