I went out with the telescope again tonight and in using ekos I did notice that the 'Independent window' option is working, just not exactly as I anticipated it would. I did notice tonight that when I tried to move the ekos control window to another desktop it did work as expected, so the button is having an effect after all. What got me confused and made me think that it wasn't working was the fact that for the indi control window, making it independent not only lets you move it to a separate desktop, but it also adds the minimize and maximize buttons to the top bar of the window. For the ekos control it does let you move it independently like indi does, but it does not add the minimize and maximize buttons to the top. When I didn't see the buttons get added I incorrectly assumed that the changes hadn't taken effect since I had already seen that behaviour on the indi window and was expecting both the behave the same. Sorry for the confusion on the matter, just a mixup on my part, although the behaviour of the UI is a bit inconsistent.

The lack of min/max buttons at the top is maybe a separate issue that could be added -- not really a bug, more of a feature request. In any case, I did get the window to behave as I wanted it to, even if it was not obvious UI wise that the behaviour was working correctly.

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