[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 105462] In GNOME 3, GTK3 dialog boxes can't be moved to show the text behind

[bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org]

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105462

--- Comment #15 from Caolán McNamara <caolanm at redhat.com> ---
You can't just flip that bit safely. If its modal you can't interact with the
window underneath the dialog, if its not modal then you can and generally the
application isn't prepared to handle that and its possible to change the
document that the dialog will operate on in ways they don't expect. Or the user
can spawn new dialogs and other interactions which will crash the app.

Its an unfortunate side-effect of being modal that gnome will attach the dialog
to its parent in a way that its not movable. There is a global option,
available under "Windows" in gnome-tweaks, to turn off Attach Modal Dialogs.
There isn't an intrinsic need for modal dialogs to be not movable, but a
gnome-level default feature that is making that happen.

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