Thank you for reporting this bug. I can confirm this on 13.04 with unity trunk.
The likely cause is it expects a drop on the Launcher, and when you leave the launcher Nux no longer tracks events. So a possible fix would be to reset drag and drop when the launcher get a mouse leave event from nux. ** Also affects: unity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: unity Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: unity Milestone: None => 7.0.0 ** Changed in: unity Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: unity Assignee: (unassigned) => Unity Maintainers (unity-maintainers-team) ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Unity Maintainers (unity-maintainers-team) ** Tags added: bitesize -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1121045 Title: launcher - drag and drop of gedit text windows leaves launcher in drop state To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1121045/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs