Unclickable area on screen

[Daniel]

In the upper right part of the display, vertically between the clock and the status icons, there is an area where the mouse is not sensitive. It is not possible to drag a window from there or change/close tabs or focus the adress bar in firefox. The Wingpanel area is not affected. The window content is not affect, too. So I guess it is something with Gala. When connected to a second screen, the area is placed on the second screen, where the wingpanel is located.

[Daniel (daniel-kerkow)]

I updated the title and description, because the bug not only affects a two monitor setup, but also a single monitor setup.

[Evan Langlois (uudruid74)]

Daniel, how large is the area that is unclickable? Is it about as tall/wide as the notification area? I'm having the same problem (and I marked the bug I reported as a dup of this one). I can grab a window title from the middle section of the top of the screen or Meta-click the body of a window and drag it away. It just doesn't accept clicks where the notification area would normally display.

[Evan Langlois (uudruid74)]

Oh - if it matters, I also run a dual monitor setup. The bug only seems to appear on the main monitor (which for me is #2, HDMI - not the built-in laptop display) where the Notification area displays. It doesn't happen on the laptop display unless I unplug the HDMI.

[Daniel (daniel-kerkow)]

Hi,
yes, I can confirm this, same effect and setup are, only that my secondary
screen is attached via VGA. And if that matters, I have an Intel Graphics
Chip along a dedicated Nvidia Chip (Optimus Hybrid Graphic). Mostly I only
discover this when I want to move tabs around in Firefox on the right side
of the display.

2014-10-24 6:41 GMT+02:00 Evan Langlois <email address hidden>:

> Oh - if it matters, I also run a dual monitor setup. The bug only seems
> to appear on the main monitor (which for me is #2, HDMI - not the built-
> in laptop display) where the Notification area displays. It doesn't
> happen on the laptop display unless I unplug the HDMI.
>
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>
> Title:
> Unclickable area on screen
>
> Status in Gala Window Manager:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> In the upper right part of the display, vertically between the clock
> and the status icons, there is an area where the mouse is not
> sensitive. It is not possible to drag a window from there or
> change/close tabs or focus the adress bar in firefox. The Wingpanel
> area is not affected. The window content is not affect, too. So I
> guess it is something with Gala. When connected to a second screen,
> the area is placed on the second screen, where the wingpanel is
> located.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/gala/+bug/1361393/+subscriptions
>

[Evan Langlois (uudruid74)]

Well, that rules out video hardware as the problem - I'm on HDMI from an ATI based card. So between us, we cover all the major brands! Its oddly intermittent - its working now, but earlier today that whole section of the screen was unclickable.

[Bart (ahverbeek)]

Did you all find a fix or solutions for this 'bug'? I'm having exactly the same problem. There is an area (on my screen) of 7cm x 3cm (high) wich is nog clickable. I have to resize a window tot close or change it, or to open a new tab in Firefox, for example.

[Evan Langlois (uudruid74)]

Not yet. Seems to be a problem with gala. You can try changing
window managers, but that can cause other issues.

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On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Bart <email address hidden> wrote:
> Did you all find a fix or solutions for this 'bug'? I'm having exactly
> the same problem. There is an area (on my screen) of 7cm x 3cm (high)
> wich is nog clickable. I have to resize a window tot close or change it,
> or to open a new tab in Firefox, for example.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1361393
>
> Title:
> Unclickable area on screen
>
> Status in Gala Window Manager:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> In the upper right part of the display, vertically between the clock
> and the status icons, there is an area where the mouse is not
> sensitive. It is not possible to drag a window from there or
> change/close tabs or focus the adress bar in firefox. The Wingpanel
> area is not affected. The window content is not affect, too. So I
> guess it is something with Gala. When connected to a second screen,
> the area is placed on the second screen, where the wingpanel is
> located.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/gala/+bug/1361393/+subscriptions

[Tony Lim (gunlockx)]

Hi,
Here to confirm. I have this exact bug on freya 0.3, installed on Chromebook C720. The native size of the device is 1366x768. On my screen the rectangle size appears to spam from below sound icons to slightly below the right bookmark bar of google chrome, as the right scrollbar appear to be working all the way to the top.