diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/modal.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/modal.rs
index 6d9f91df3..f72383068 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/modal.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/modal.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 //! The modal dialog window: a backdrop that keeps the rest of the app from taking clicks, and a
 //! window with no title bar that opens centred and moves by dragging its heading (the band from its
-//! top edge down to the heading), as a title bar would. Where it was moved to stays, per window, for
-//! the session, and the window never leaves the screen. Rows too many for the screen's height
-//! scroll inside it ([`scrolled_rows`]), so its heading and buttons stay in view.
+//! top edge down to the heading), as a title bar would, showing the arrow until it is dragged. Where
+//! it was moved to stays, per window, for the session, and the window never leaves the screen. Rows
+//! too many for the screen's height scroll inside it ([`scrolled_rows`]), so its heading and buttons
+//! stay in view.
 
 use egui::{Id, Rect, Vec2};
 
@@ -60,10 +61,10 @@ pub(crate) fn drag_band(ui: &mut egui::Ui, bottom: f32) {
     let band = Rect::from_x_y_ranges(outer.x_range(), outer.top()..=bottom.max(outer.top()));
     // Not focusable (`Sense::drag()` is): Tab goes through the dialog's controls, not the band.
     let r = ui.interact(band, handle(id), egui::Sense::DRAG);
+    // Hovered, it keeps the arrow, as a title bar does (the grab cursor is Windows' four-way move
+    // arrows: #5246); only while it is dragged does it show the window being carried.
     if r.dragged() {
         ui.ctx().set_cursor_icon(egui::CursorIcon::Grabbing);
-    } else if r.hovered() {
-        ui.ctx().set_cursor_icon(egui::CursorIcon::Grab);
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/tests_modal.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/tests_modal.rs
index 5408b78c2..95ff410ca 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/tests_modal.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/tests_modal.rs
@@ -118,6 +118,31 @@ fn dialogs_move_by_their_heading_stay_on_screen_and_where_they_were_moved() {
     }
 }
 
+/// #5246: the band that moves a dialog keeps the arrow when hovered, as a title bar does (the grab
+/// cursor is the four-way move arrows on Windows); it shows the window held only while dragged.
+#[test]
+fn the_band_that_moves_a_dialog_keeps_the_arrow_until_dragged() {
+    let opens: [(&str, Open, egui::Id); 2] = [
+        ("Offset Path", |app| crate::menus::invoke(app, "object.path.offsetPath", json!({})), egui::Id::unique(("dialog", "offsetPath"))),
+        ("New Document", open_new_document, egui::Id::unique(("dialog", "newDocument"))),
+    ];
+    for (name, open, id) in opens {
+        let (ctx, mut app) = (ctx(), app_with_selection());
+        open(&mut app);
+        settle(&ctx, &mut app);
+        let at = rect_of(&ctx, id).left_top() + vec2(40.0, 6.0);
+        let cursor = |ctx: &egui::Context, app: &mut VectorcraftApp, events: Vec<Event>| {
+            let input = egui::RawInput { screen_rect: Some(Rect::from_min_size(Pos2::ZERO, SCREEN)), events, ..Default::default() };
+            ctx.run_ui(input, |ui| show(app, ui.ctx())).platform_output.cursor_icon
+        };
+        cursor(&ctx, &mut app, vec![Event::PointerMoved(at)]);
+        assert_eq!(cursor(&ctx, &mut app, vec![]), egui::CursorIcon::Default, "{name}: hovering the band");
+        cursor(&ctx, &mut app, vec![button(at, true)]);
+        assert_eq!(cursor(&ctx, &mut app, vec![Event::PointerMoved(at + vec2(20.0, 10.0))]), egui::CursorIcon::Grabbing, "{name}: dragging it");
+        cursor(&ctx, &mut app, vec![button(at + vec2(20.0, 10.0), false)]);
+    }
+}
+
 /// Tab goes through a dialog's controls and does not stop on the band that moves the window.
 #[test]
 fn tab_skips_the_band_that_moves_a_dialog() {