** Description changed: Steps to reproduce: ------------------- - Register a keyboard shortcut to trigger a "Copy a screenshot of an area to clipboard", i.e Shift+Ctrl+$ - Keyboard shortcut works fine and your mouse cursor becomes a cross-hair - - Now open a selectbox in Firefox Application, for example, or any UI item capturing user input and try to trigger a screenshot in this state: for example try to screenshot a HTML selectbox’ options + - Now open, for example, a selectbox in Firefox Application, or any UI item capturing mouse and try to trigger a screenshot in this state: for example, try to screenshot your active Application menu dropdown (Application > File > Save)… - At this moment, screenshot utility won’t change your mouse pointer into a crosshair and a bug occurs which prevents gnome-shell to respond to any mouse-click: I can’t click anymore on Dock icons, top bar actions and can’t click on Applications which are not in focus (I have to use Super+Tab to give focus to other applications) - However, mouse "hover" is still captured by applications (I can see UI tooltips appearing) but I can’t click anymore For the moment, the only way to recover my mouse click is to reboot - Ubuntu or restart gnome-shell. - + Ubuntu or restart gdm3 service. Description: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Release: 20.04 - gnome-shell: - Installed: 3.36.1-5ubuntu1 - Candidate: 3.36.1-5ubuntu1 + gdm3: + Installed: 3.34.1-1ubuntu1 + Candidate: 3.34.1-1ubuntu1 Version table: - *** 3.36.1-5ubuntu1 500 - 500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages - 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status - - gnome-screenshot: - Installed: 3.36.0-1ubuntu1 - Candidate: 3.36.0-1ubuntu1 - Version table: - *** 3.36.0-1ubuntu1 500 + *** 3.34.1-1ubuntu1 500 500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status + gnome-shell: + Installed: 3.36.1-5ubuntu1 + Candidate: 3.36.1-5ubuntu1 + Version table: + *** 3.36.1-5ubuntu1 500 + 500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages + 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status + + gnome-screenshot: + Installed: 3.36.0-1ubuntu1 + Candidate: 3.36.0-1ubuntu1 + Version table: + *** 3.36.0-1ubuntu1 500 + 500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages + 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status + What you expected to happen: ---------------------------- - Area screenshot should be saved into clipboard, even if a UI element is - focused (select-box, button, …) - + Area screenshot should be saved into clipboard, even if a UI dropdown + menu /selectbox element is activated (select-box, button, application + top-menu bar…) What happened instead: ---------------------- Screenshot utility freezes and makes all gnome-shell unclickable
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