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Difficult to drag windows between monitors

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Since a recent update to Unity it's very hard to move windows and dialogs between monitors. When I start dragging a window and move the cursor to another monitor, the cursor sticks to the edge, and it initially sticks really hard. When I keep moving the mouse back and forth, slamming into the edge, eventually the effort it takes to move the window lessens and it becomes possible to drag the window across.

I tried approaching the edge with fast and slow movements, only when I move really slow will it let the window pass.

Before the update, the cursor and window would just easily move across the border as if the border wasn't even there, and snapping the window to the edge was actually a minor inconvenience.

I much prefer the challenge of snapping a window to the edge separating the monitors than the challenge of moving windows across monitors.

I know I can workaround this by disabling Sticky Edges, but I want to keep this feature (or analog behavior). I just want to disable the 'effort' it takes to move windows across the separating border.

[edit] I also now noticed it happens when not even dragging anything, but it's so subtle that it's almost undetectable unless you pay attention to it.

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That's Unity that has the hard sticky edges and not GNOME. GNOME does have it where if you hit the edge of the screen you can make your window take up that half of the screen, but as far as dragging goes, it is quite simple.
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It was that way with unit too until recently
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Then which desktop environment are you using? Unity and GNOME are 2 different desktops. I use GNOME on 22.04 and there isn't any sticky on the edges, or at least very little. I tried Unity and it was a pain to get past that. Got rid of Unity for that reason.
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Sorry, fixed now. Unity had some drama in the past but after Canonical was done with it (also figuratively) it was rebooted and maintained by an independent group now (Lomiri). I've been happy with it since 2018.
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It solved itself after another update. So I'll write this off as a short-lived regression bug.

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