On Sun, 26 Nov 2023 01:33:41 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
By default, when a GNOME application pops up a dialog, it gets glued to (one of?) the application's window: the dialog sits in front of the Window, glued in place. If you move the dialog, the window moves with it.
I'm not sure why this is considered useful behaviour. Perhaps because if you misplace the dialog, you might not know that the application is waiting for a response (I've had that happen in Windows). But it means that the dialog might hide something you need to see on the main window to fill in the dialog.
At least on Fedora, you can change this behaviour using "GNOME Tweeks". Under Windows, set Attach Modal Dialogs to "off".
Hugh, I am still running FVWM2. I have it set to make the active window follow my mouse, and for it to not move to the top of the screen. This is very use for copying and pasting. As far as I know, FVWM is the only window manager that does the latter. -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson