Desktop Icons NG steals keyboard focus from apps launched via search

Bug #1978017 reported by Haukur Ingi Heiðarsson
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned
gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

The "power off" dialog in gnome shell does not have focus when launched from the launcher ui (meta key + search) and it is therefore impossible to select either "cancel" or "power off" using keyboard navigation.

If, on the other hand, the dialog is launched from the indicator area in the top right corner, the dialog has focus and keyboard navigation works as expected.

See the attached screencast for a visual demonstration.

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Haukur Ingi Heiðarsson (haukur-heidarsson) wrote :
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Haukur Ingi Heiðarsson (haukur-heidarsson) wrote :

I have Fedora 36 running on another computer and there, the keyboard navigation works as expected when launched from the search UI. Both the affected 22.04 and the unaffected Fedora 36 installations are fairly fresh and neither has any additional Gnome extensions installed.

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Haukur Ingi Heiðarsson (haukur-heidarsson) wrote :

Updated package

affects: ubuntu → gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Seems to be the Desktop Icons NG extension stealing focus. The bug goes away with that extension disabled. Same as bug 1969598.

tags: added: jammy
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Although now I've said that, the bug has stopped happening.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
summary: - Broken keyboard navigation in the power off dialog in 22.04
+ Broken keyboard navigation in the Power Off dialog if launched via app
+ search
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Haukur Ingi Heiðarsson (haukur-heidarsson) wrote : Re: Broken keyboard navigation in the Power Off dialog if launched via app search

Disabling the Desktop Icons NG extension also fixes the issue for me.

summary: - Broken keyboard navigation in the Power Off dialog if launched via app
- search
+ Desktop Icons NG steals keyboard focus from apps launched via search
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance: Low → Medium
Changed in gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng (Ubuntu):
importance: Low → Medium
tags: added: focus
tags: added: lunar
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