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Bug 788047 - Inability to move child dialogues separate from parent applicaitons
Inability to move child dialogues separate from parent applicaitons
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: window-management
3.26.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-09-22 14:52 UTC by Peter Clifton
Modified: 2017-09-22 15:24 UTC
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Description Peter Clifton 2017-09-22 14:52:29 UTC 
When dragging a save dialogue (or similar) in the latest A Ubuntu release, the WM does not allow me to move the dialogue independently from the application.

This is a huge nuisance, in the case where I want to move the dialogue to uncover some text from the underlying document, to construct a save file name (e.g. matching title of document to filename etc..).

It is really unexpected that dragging the title bar of an dialogue also moves the parent application.
Comment 1 Florian Müllner 2017-09-22 15:24:56 UTC 
Yes, attaching modal dialogs to their parent is intentional (and has been the case for six years, so there's nothing "new" to it at all). If you don't like it, there's a setting to turn it off.