When clicking on some maximized or tiled windows, focus on roughly the lower quarter falls to the window behind
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Initially I thought this was an issue with IntelliJ and filed a bug there:
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But when I had the same issue with GIMP, I realized it's an Ubuntu or GNOME issue instead. I am assuming this is a gnome-shell problem.
Every once in a while, when I maximize or tile (Win+Right) the IntelliJ window, a bottom fraction of the window (somewhere around a quarter) becomes impossible to interact with, with the mouse. Clicking in that lower area will give focus to the thing behind IntelliJ, and if it's a window, raise it to the foreground. if I restore the window so that it is not maximized, the entire window is interactive with the mouse once again.
This also happened with GIMP.
The attached "Screencast" is a recording. I had to crop it to hide personal information. The attached screenshot shows the state of my screen so you have context, with a bright green color used to replace personal information.
For the first 10s of the recording, I simply moused over to show how the cursor changes around a quarter from the bottom of the screen.
For the next 10s, I left click, then move, then left click, then move, until focus changes to Sublime, the window behind IntelliJ.
For the remainder of the video I show that right-clicking and mousing over works fine on the top three quarters, until I reach the bottom again, and then the right click is sent to Sublime.
Ubuntu 23.04
gnome-shell version 44.2-0ubuntu1
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: gnome-shell 44.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Jul 5 12:05:46 2023
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-09-19 (289 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220809.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
TERM=screen-
XDG_RUNTIME_
RelatedPackageV
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
tags: | added: focus picking |
As mentioned in OP, here is the screenshot showing context of entire desktop, with bright green hiding personal information.