#Linux #UX bugs like this are frustrating: starting a drag action pops the window forward, obscuring the target window. I'm using latest #Fedora but apparently this happens on nearly all DEs.
The smaller your display is (and the more nontechnical you are) the more likely you'll hit this. Apparently this has been known for a long time and no one cares to fix it? I'm just curious why.
"Not enough programmers" isn't a good excuse, this is a fairly easy fix. @cassidy Devs only use Terminal?
Federico Mena Quintero
in reply to Scott Jenson • • •1. Press the mouse button on the file to drag; don't release it; start dragging.
2. Drag to the upper-left Activities corner; this will activate the shell's Overview.
3. While still dragging with the mouse button down, hover the destination window; it will come to the front in a couple of seconds.
4. Drop the file where you want it.
Instead of (2) you can also press the Windows key while dragging, which will activate the Overview (unless you have changed the hotkey).
Scott Jenson
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero • • •Federico Mena Quintero
in reply to Scott Jenson • • •Yeah, I don't know how focus tracking works these days. I don't know if the app gets the button press and it says "bring this window to the front" to the compositor, or if the compositor does it itself when it first gets the press.
And *that* behavior you want is something I started missing when I switched from focus-follows-mouse to click-to-focus-with-autoraise years ago, but I just thought it was a consequence of my choice.