Re: Why modal dialogs are not movable?

[Ron Yorston <rmy tigress co uk>]

Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> I'm attaching a very annoying case that I encounter frequently. When I
> open a PDF and want to save it on the disk, the modal file dialog asks
> for the name of the file. The thing is that modal window can not be
> moved e.g. I can't look at the title of the PDF or whatever to get a
> clue for naming the file.
>
> Is it a choice/restriction or a bug somewhere? Why I can't move them?

It's possible to change this behaviour by running:

   dconf write /org/gnome/shell/overrides/attach-modal-dialogs false

Ron