Inability to move child dialogues separate from parent applicaitons

[Peter Clifton]

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.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

You can also disable this feature by installing GNOME Tweaks (gnome-tweak-tool).

Open the Windows panel and turn off Attach Modal Dialogs.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Peter Clifton (pcjc2)]

I've reported this upstream (although - being Gnome, I'm not expecting much other than a "we're right, you're wrong" response). (OT: Sad Unity is disappearing!)

Thanks for pointing out it can be overridden in the Tweak tool. I didn't think to look there.

Actually, as it happens, "Windows" -> "Attach Modal Dialogues" was already turned off. I had to turn it _on_, then off again, before it took any effect. (Possibly a bug I guess, but I'm certainly a lot happier now this is adjusted).

Peter

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

upstream doesn't consider it as a bug