Gnome: Let the current window be active while dragging another window's content.

I am long time windows user, recently I switched Arch with Gnome3. I often use mouse gestures to copy, move and other tasks. I really miss windows experience in Gnome. Like easily copy content from other window to current window, but in gnome when drag content from other window it get active and current window get hidden behind the other active window. I hope my question is clear.

Md Adil

Posted 2017-05-11T07:14:19.153

Reputation: 11

You get used to this and just position source window so that it does not completely obscure target window. You also could play around with how windows get focus, but I haven't done this, for me this issue was not a big deal – r0berts – 2017-05-11T09:20:54.747

@r0berts thanks for reply. I thought Linux is fully customizable. – Md Adil – 2017-05-11T09:31:14.017

It is, but sometimes you have to learn how; for this particular bit I haven't as I did not find it difficult to live with it and heaps of other stuff seemed more interesting. Why don't you go to gnome developers irc in addition to this? – r0berts – 2017-05-11T09:35:34.657

@MdAdil Linux is fully customizable is obviously a relative statement. In many cases, that means if you patch the source yourself. Obviously no one desktop environment and/or window manager provides every option anyone could ever dream up. Even highly configurable WMs might omit some you want. And wide-ranging DEs like GNOME aim for cohesive designs that tend to rule out offering 1000s of options. Course, if you can justify why some feature would be broadly beneficial & in line with the rest of the design, maybe it can get added. But you'd do that at the GNOME Bugzilla, not on SuperUser. – underscore_d – 2017-05-13T16:07:51.647

@underscore_d I just wanted to know there is such option or not.. – Md Adil – 2017-05-15T10:28:02.367

Gnome: Let the current window be active while dragging another window's content.

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