apport information ** Attachment added: "monitors.xml.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1896188/+attachment/5412107/+files/monitors.xml.txt
** Description changed: Hi, this must sound odd, but to me most Desktop bugs do :-/ The issue: - If I hit the meta key the usual "search app" overlay appears. - I search for an application and start it - the overlay does NOT disappear anymore - the miniature images of the just started app seems fine - without being able to leave the overlay I'm stuck unable to input into applications anymore - Things like mouse and alt+f4 seem to work, therefore it seems to work fine but not update the screen correctly. There are other "screen update issues" that started to occur with the above e.g. when I start firefox it only displays and later updates part of the window. Resizing the window (bigger) does not change the displayed area. The way I can start applications in UI for now is via the run-command on ALT+F2 entering the app directly. ## Tries to resolve so far: - I have seen similar issues due to different themes that after upgrades fail to work well. I usually used the "Yaru" theme, but I switched back to the default theme (Adawaita) and issues remain. - starting the overlay with a mouse click to the menu icon instead of meta key => fails as well + - I usually have a lot of screen attached, to be sure that is unrelated I undocked the laptop and restarted with just the one laptop screen -> still the same issue - Go into lock screen and log back in - still in the hanging overlay - go back to the last known working kernel (5.4.0-42) without any change in behavior (=seems not kernel related) - reset the full gnome config back to pristine state and reboot. Well I can confirm that all config seems lost, but the issue still behaves the same - Remove all packages that I considered not immediately needed (but not things of the default install, you know all those things you installed once and never needed) to ensure they have no bad influence - still bad + + + I attached a video of the issue down below so you can take a look. + --- ## Odd things that might (or not) be related: Only read this section as "could it help me to understand the main issue above", but not as individual or grouped report of other issues into one bug. - Yesterday I had programs with text areas (gedit, gvim, ...) stuck. The text panels just didn't initialize anymore - they stayed inactive. All of such programs that I started before worked fine and I was assuming some auto-update in background might have broken things. Therefore I tried to close out my open work and reboot after a full upgrade of whatever packages were still outstanding to upgrade. But this left me with the current problem. BTW - now such editors initialize and work fine again. While trying to create a video of this I found another helpful hint - this really seems to affect all overlays. Usually for UI-bug-videos I use the program "screenkey" which itself does an overlay showing the keys that were pressed. That as well got stuck and I could not get back to a working desktop. So it seems this is about a general "overlays are bad" more than "the application search overlay is bad". I thought that would be great for debugging, but I got this happening only once while the issue with the application search overlay remains. + --- - - I'll try to capture it on video so you can make more sense of it and also probably re-target it to the right component as well as letting me know what to do for better debugging. - --- ProblemType: Bug ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.8 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME DisplayManager: gdm3 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-12 (706 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725) NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair Package: gnome-shell 3.36.4-1ubuntu1~20.04.2 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-47.51-generic 5.4.55 RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.4-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 Tags: focal Uname: Linux 5.4.0-47-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-03 (167 days ago) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip libvirt lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sbuild sudo _MarkForUpload: True -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1896188 Title: Show Application Overlay does not exit anymore getting the desktop stuck To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1896188/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
