I've just switched to MacOS after about 35 years as a Windows user and this is the end of my first week of Mac (M5 Pro MacBook Pro) ownership. I'm mostly loving it, both MacOS (albeit with some reservations) and my new M5 Pro MacBook Pro hardware (with absolutely no reservations - the hardware is amazing), but there's one behaviour that's driving me nuts because it just seems so wrong. None of the suggestions I've found on the web to stop it happening have worked (disable Stage Manager - I have that disabled anyway - and/or turn off tiling which I tried but it made no difference) so I'm wondering if it's a bug, if I just haven't found the right setting to adjust to disable the behaviour, or if it's by design. (If it is by design then anyone who can convince me it's a good design choice has impressive powers of persuasion.)
What I'm seeing is that if I have some icons (files) on my desktop positioned right next to the right edge of my screen (which is where I think MacOS places desktop icons by default) and I control/right click on a file icon to get its context menu and then select "Get info" from the context menu I see a small window I assume with the file info pop up just to the left of the file's icon (exactly where I would want/expect it to appear) but then almost immediately (within maybe a tenth of a second - far too quickly to look at any of the info displayed) it zooms across the display all the way until it gets to the left edge of the screen where it stops. I can then drag it back over to be nearer to the file whose info it is displaying but it's really pretty annoying because I find the behaviour so curious. When initiating the action I'm by definition going to be focussed on the context menu right next to the file icon but the info window that the command invokes ends up being positioned as far away as it can possibly be from where my visual focus was when the command was initiated. Maybe it's not such a big deal when using a laptop screen but it's very annoying when using a large screen (mine is 32") and it must be even worse for someone using an ultra-wide screen.
I see the same behaviour with a few other types of pop-up windows where they scoot across to the far left of the display but this one is easiest to reproduce. If it's a bug then at least if I know that I can stop searching for some setting to change to stop it from happening (and I'll report the bug to Apple). If it is by design then is there any way to stop it from happening? As mentioned above messing with Stage Manager and tiling settings didn't help.
What I'm seeing is that if I have some icons (files) on my desktop positioned right next to the right edge of my screen (which is where I think MacOS places desktop icons by default) and I control/right click on a file icon to get its context menu and then select "Get info" from the context menu I see a small window I assume with the file info pop up just to the left of the file's icon (exactly where I would want/expect it to appear) but then almost immediately (within maybe a tenth of a second - far too quickly to look at any of the info displayed) it zooms across the display all the way until it gets to the left edge of the screen where it stops. I can then drag it back over to be nearer to the file whose info it is displaying but it's really pretty annoying because I find the behaviour so curious. When initiating the action I'm by definition going to be focussed on the context menu right next to the file icon but the info window that the command invokes ends up being positioned as far away as it can possibly be from where my visual focus was when the command was initiated. Maybe it's not such a big deal when using a laptop screen but it's very annoying when using a large screen (mine is 32") and it must be even worse for someone using an ultra-wide screen.
I see the same behaviour with a few other types of pop-up windows where they scoot across to the far left of the display but this one is easiest to reproduce. If it's a bug then at least if I know that I can stop searching for some setting to change to stop it from happening (and I'll report the bug to Apple). If it is by design then is there any way to stop it from happening? As mentioned above messing with Stage Manager and tiling settings didn't help.
