On Friday, May 22, 2026 6:10:31 PM Mountain Standard Time Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Debian/Forky on an AMD64 system. I'm using the Plasma 6 > desktop over X. > > For the past while (months at least) most dialogue windows show up > barely on the screen, at the bottom left of the display with just a > millimetre or two of the top of the window frame showing above the > bottom panel. This makes it hard to even grab the frame to make the > window visible. > > I assume it has something to do with the very bad idea to remove > standard window behaviours, like remembering application sizes and > positions, and making us set them on a window by window basis as part of > the move to the already long in the tooth yet somehow still not ready > for prime time Wayland. > > Maybe it's just me, but I really only want application windows to > remember where they were and what size they were. I expect movable tool > windows (e.g. Scribus properties) to do the same. Pop up dialogues I > want to be centred in the application that launched them (or in the > centre of the screen - just somewhere where I don't have to look for them). > > I'm amazed that after 40 years of development, that I even have to ask > for a simple way to do something like that. Yet somehow we're now at the > point that I have to move applications to the correct virtual desktop > and close down multiple instances of other applications after logging in > because the window manager can't handle that anymore. > > Most things I can live with, but how can get all the pop-up dialogues to > appear somewhere where I don't have spend time dragging them to a > visible place on the screen?
I am not seeing that behavior, but I am using Wayland. Have to tried to see if this is an X11-specific problem or if something else is going on? -- Soren Stoutner [email protected]
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