Application windows can get 'stuck'
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Linux Mint |
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Bug Description
This is running on Linux Mint 14, 64 bit
Certain application windows can get 'stuck', where they remain on screen but cannot be interacted with. This is typically associated with windows that are created and dismissed by the application, usually in fairly quick succession.
What will happen is that the window will appear, but will not disappear, and it cannot be interacted with. You can't click on it, drag it, or anything else, though it will remain on top of all other windows in whatever position it was generated at. Clicking/right clicking/etc will behave as if the window was not there, and interact with whatever is behind it.
The only way that I have found to get rid of the offending windows is to restart cinnamon via alt-F2+r, though I feel that this is a bit kludgey.
I can reliably reproduce this behavior using Steam by attemping to launch any game from within steam. The "now launching (game)" window will get stuck. I have also observed the login window that opens with Spotify exhibiting this behavior, and occasionally similar pop ups within other applications have done it as well. I have had Firefox do it at least once, though I can't recall the steps to reproduce it.
| Kevin Ferguson (kjfergu) wrote | #1 |
I am reporting back to confirm that this bug is still present in Mint 15, 64 bit and LMDE 64 bit.
It occurs particularly bad in applications such as MATLAB, but I have also observed it in applications such as VisIt, ANSYS, Spotify, and even Firefox, etc. I have also noticed this behavior in certain graphical terminal applications (Terminal applications that call X windows).
Additionally, MATLAB displays this behavior when using its tooltip popups, as well as the blue border that appears when docking parts of the application.
Asking about this problem in the /r/linuxmint subreddit has yielded other users acknowledging this problem in varying applications.
The same set of actions in each application can reproduce the 'sticking' reliably.
This breaks the behavior of numerous graphical applications under Cinnamon.