Saturday, May 6, 2017

Detaching modal dialog boxes from windows

This had been bugging me for a long time.  Gnome Shell Ubuntu decided that it would be nice if users couldn't get to applications while dialog boxes (like a save menu) were open.  Here's a fix to undo that decision.  src.  This is functional on 17.04.  

Detach dialog
dconf write /org/gnome/shell/overrides/attach-modal-dialogs false
Attach dialog
dconf write /org/gnome/shell/overrides/attach-modal-dialogs true

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