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Dialog boxes appearing when I click "save" or "open" in some programs open up on my laptop's small screen instead of on my main external one. I would like them to open on my main display. What defines the position of secondary windows like this ?

I also noticed an issue: if I try to drag those secondary windows from my laptop's display to my main display, it causes the main window to move instead of the secondary one. I have a third party Gnome theme active, could it be the source of the issue?

What might be causing this ?

Emile Papillon-Corbeil
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Possibly you are describing a (weird) feature of the windowing system.

Try issuing the following in a terminal window:

gsettings set org.gnome.mutter attach-modal-dialogs false

This should take care of (at least) the part where the parent windows move when dragging the dialogs.

If you want a graphical interface to control this, install either:

  • gnome-tweaks
    • It has a "Windows" sidebar item, and on the corresponding panel a toggle called "Attach Modal Dialogs".
  • dconf-editor
    • You can navigate to the org.gnome.mutter schema and click the toggle for attach-modal-dialogs.

All these things do the same thing, toggling this feature of the windowing system on/off.

Levente
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