Stupid Modal Dialog Boxes, and Stupider User
(We recommend you bookmark this blog. Trying to find helpful information in forums usually just ends in making you frustrated and angry. This blog does not speculate or guess. If we post it, we've tried it and it works. As with all our posts, if you don't care about the background info, you can head straight to the y ellow highlighted sections for the problem and the fix.) Some time in the past 3 years I started having problems with my dialog boxes being "attached" to their background applications in such a way that I could not move or resize the dialog box without dragging the background application along side it. That was a huge problem for me, as much of my work involved the need to see the work I was doing at the same time as having a dialog box open (I will spare you the details). I searched every Linux forum I could to find a solution. Not only did I not find a solution, it appeared that I might be the only person on the face of the earth with the problem. (...