Re: dialogues showing up in the bottom left corner of the display

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From: Soren Stoutner <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Gary Dale <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2026 15:29:42 -0700
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Organization: Debian
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On Friday, May 22, 2026 6:10:31=E2=80=AFPM Mountain Standard Time Gary Dale=
 wrote:
> I'm running Debian/Forky on an AMD64 system. I'm using the Plasma 6
> desktop over X.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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=
).
>=20
>   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.
>=20
> 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 se=
e=20
if this is an X11-specific problem or if something else is going on?

=2D-=20
Soren Stoutner
[email protected]
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