Comment 77 for bug 1538111

1) So this is not problem and/or can be considered as won't fix. When using Metacity without compositing manager there is no way to add extra "space" for resize cursor area. Your only option is to search for theme that has bigger borders. I am quite surprised that you wrote that Marco works well... Marco has this 1px resize problem with / or without compositing manager.

2) You can try to modify theme - changing borders from 1px to bigger size or just use theme that has bigger borders.

3) This was not about resize problem. This question was about missing / not visible windows. Did you try Intel only mode? Did you see this problem on other laptops you just mentioned?