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

On 2026-05-23 18:29, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> 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?
>
I have no idea. I know that I was playing around with some window 
settings to try to get the application window to actually stay where ti 
was when it was last closed. This itself is a new behaviour brought 
about by attempts (by the developers) to make X and Wayland co-exist. It 
was never a problem when we only had X. Apparently these days, having a 
window remember where it was is a "special application setting" for many 
applications.

I've tried Wayland from time to time but have yet to find it ready for 
daily use. Too many things don't work properly on it even after years of 
development.

I'm not even sure I like the general premise behind Wayland. The X-11 
idea of separating the client from the server seems a lot more rational 
than trying to squeeze a little more performance by combining the two. 
But then I don't play games....