User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10 Build Identifier: 1.2.0 The copy/move file dialog behaves like a normal window and thus can be acted upon by a window manager. In the case of tiling window managers, the dialog may be tiled. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use a dynamic tiling window manager 2. Start Thunar and copy/move some files Actual Results: The dialog window will become tiled. Expected Results: The dialog window should act like a message dialog and not be tiled. I'm using awesome 3.4.9 on Arch Linux.
I still see this behavior in Thunar 1.4.0. I have found a workaround rule for awesome: { rule = { name = "File Operation Progress" }, properties = { floating = true } }, However I wish the copy dialog box did not act like a normal window in the first place.
If the type hint is set to GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_DIALOG, it is not possible to minimize the window, which is something that is preferred.