Comment 126 for bug 1181666

I can confirm that I am still having this issue on 3.34 as well (Manjaro).

This is shocking to me that anyone using Gnome to develop doesn't encounter this bug at minimum of 5x per day. Or are Gnome developers using MacOS and MBPs to develop like those in the lol "Linux" Foundation.

+Scott

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On Sunday, October 13, 2019 7:42 AM, kohey <email address hidden> wrote:

> Yes, the issue still happens with 3.34.
> My work around is to trigger the following script through a keyboard shortcut.
> gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events disabled
> sleep 1
> gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events enabled
> gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-to-click false
> sleep 1
> gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-to-click true
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1181666
>
> Title:
> gnome-shell randomly blocks mouse clicks from working in app windows
>
> Status in GNOME Shell:
> Confirmed
> Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
> Confirmed
> Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in mutter package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Under GNOME 3, the use of the mouse-click stops occasionally, though I
> can still move the mouse around and can still click on items in the
> Activities screen and the top-bar.
>
> I can use alt-tab to cycle windows and can still type into already-
> active textboxes in windows, but I cannot click within the windows,
> and the mouse is not picked up at all by the windows.
>
> I can open the alt-f2 "run command" dialogue, but cannot type into it.
>
> The workaround I'm using is to open terminal (ctrl-alt-T) and run
> "gnome-shell -r", and restarting that command every time I have the
> problem again.
>
> Please ask if there's anything I forgot to mention.
>
> ADDITIONAL: The error tends to happen randomly, but it seems to happen
> upon opening a new window, changing windows, closing windows, or
> opening the activities pane (whether a change of window is thus
> instigated or not)
>
> ADDITIONAL 2: (sorry, it's early) The other workaround is to log out
> and to log in again, but that is also less than ideal
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
> Package: gnome-shell 3.6.3.1-0ubuntu6
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-22.33-generic 3.8.11
> Uname: Linux 3.8.0-22-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Sun May 19 07:02:18 2013
> DisplayManager: gdm
> GsettingsChanges:
>  b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'clock-show-date' b'true'
>  b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'clock-show-seconds' b'true'
>  b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'document-font-name' b"'Sans 10'"
>  b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'font-name' b"'Cantarell 10'"
>  b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'monospace-font-name' b"'Ubuntu Mono 12'"
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-04 (14 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
> MarkForUpload: True
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
>  PATH=(custom, no user)
>  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: gnome-shell
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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