On a second machine also running current focal (it's not convenient to do it on this one right now) I disabled extensions via the Extensions pref panel, deleted my user extensions, and removed gnome-shell- extensions.
There were a handful of extensions still on disk whose packages have a lot of reverse dependencies, which I didn't remove. [clammy(~)] gsettings get org.gnome.shell enabled-extensions @as [] [clammy(~)] ls ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ [clammy(~)] ls /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ desktop-icons@csoriano ubuntu-appindicat...@ubuntu.com ubuntu-d...@ubuntu.com [clammy(~)] _ Then I rebooted and logged back and and reproduced the problem successfully as per example 1 above. ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1869261 Title: popups move to top left of window when opened To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1869261/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs