Annoying window behaviour when dragging

Often when dragging a window aside it jumps and stack on top of the most left top window (or so). It seems this happens when dragging a window on top of another window's title but not always. When it does happen it can be reproduced several times in a row but sometimes it doesn't happen at all, hence this behavior is inconsistent. It is also application independent.
Is it possible to get rid of this behaviour?

At least on Windows this depends on the OS setting, and not a JVM setting (at least I'm not aware of a setting which controls window dragging, I only know of one which affects window resizing)
Thomas

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