I figured it was a Gtk on Mac thing since it works just fine in Ubuntu.

I’ll pop into gnucash-devel soon. Thanks!

> On May 10, 2017, at 5:49 AM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.fremont.ca.us> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On May 10, 2017, at 12:48 AM, Adrien Monteleone 
>> <adrien.montele...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, I’m using El Capitan (10.11.6). Sorry I didn’t include that earlier.
>> 
>> Here’s some hardware specs if needed:
>> Mac mini (Late 2014)
>> 2.8Ghz Intel Core i5
>> 16GB DDR3 (1600Mhz)
>> Intel Iris 1536MB graphics
>> 
>> As for the tabs, that’s not a big deal if the windows behave otherwise. Even 
>> then, it’s a trivial annoyance really.
>> 
>> I’d like to get involved with the project but am not too confident I can 
>> jump right in the deep end. I’ll check the wiki on where to get started.
> 
> 
> Adrien,
> 
> The details about your mac aren't important. There's a problem with Gtk on 
> macs that the window stacking models are very different and Gtk can't control 
> how pop-ups are stacked. It works out OK most of the time, but at startup 
> when the dialogs get fired before the main window is realized the main window 
> can get drawn on top of the dialogs.
> If we use the Apple stacking levels we wind up with dialogs that behave like 
> the Apple Help window: Always on top, even when GnuCash doesn't have focus. 
> (Cocoa applications' dialog boxes automatically disappear when focus is 
> switched but Gtk's don't.)
> 
> You've done a great job in the shallow end helping users. Thanks for that. 
> Please start a thread in gnucash-devel about getting involved and we'll work 
> on helping you bootstrap there.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls

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