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I upgraded my Mac Pro to OS X Lion (now 10.7.1) a few weeks ago, and am mostly very happy with it. The edge-resizing of Windows is especially nice.
Still, the Special Characters app, which used to have a resizable window from the lower right corner, now has no resizing available at all.
Is there any way to alter this behavior to make this window resizable, or do I just need to wait till Apple recognizes this problem and fixes it?
Based on mjmt's excellent info, here's how to globally disable resizing (tested in 10.7.4):
defaults write -globalDomain AppleEdgeResizing NO
Log out and log back into your account (or quit every single app) to see changes take effect.
First, you may need to enable these groups by clicking the button in the upper left and choosing "Customize List…":
Then find the desired list and check the checkbox:
If you have done this and you see boxes instead of characters, it just means you don't have a font that supports those characters. If you download and install an appropriate font you should start seeing the characters.
Best Answer
You can resize the window, but it's different than most windows in Lion.
If you click and drag a corner or an edge, the window will resize. Yes, it doesn't look like you can use the corners, but they do work.
This appears to work with every corner except the top left, which is blocked by the close button. Edit: Actually, if you aim just right (to the top left of the close button) you can use that corner too.
To summarize: Things still work, but the active areas are tiny. You just have to be careful.
This behavior is strange, and seems buggy to me. I expect than a future update will fix this and allow you to resize by all the corners and edges.