This issue also occurs semi-randomly when making normal touchscreen motions. For instance, sometimes I'll be scrolling through a webpage, the suddenly Firefox will un-maximize itself (turning into a normal window), and the cursor will get locked into the drag state. As per this issue, the system is then rendered inoperative until I kill Firefox (the active window).
This however, is not consistently reproducible, where as dragging from the top bar will cause the issue 100% of the time. It is by no means uncommon though, it is actually quite annoying to have my entire system freeze up semi-regularly and require me to manually restart Firefox (in fact, it happened while writing this comment). I have also done some more testing. - Minimizing the active window (using wmctrl) from a virtual console does not solve the issue. - Starting a new window from a virtual console does not solve the issue. - Consistently, the only way to resolve this issue is the kill the active program. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2037307 Title: Dragging the top activities/time bar freezes GNOME completely (Xorg session) Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: If you use a touchscreen and drag a finger down on the very top bar (with the time and the former activities button), GNOME will completely freeze. The mouse cursor will be locked in the "drag" state. All keyboard input (including Alt-F2) will be ignored. The only way to escape this state is to switch into a virtual console and kill the current program. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10 Package: gnome-shell 45.0-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-5.5-generic 6.5.0 Uname: Linux 6.5.0-5-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Sep 25 12:33:44 2023 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-08-02 (55 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" - Release amd64 (20230418) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PATH=(custom, no user) SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm-256color XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 45.0-2ubuntu1 SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to mantic on 2023-09-23 (2 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/2037307/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
