Gnome panel got stuck

[Dmitry Kuteynikov]

I closed the lid of my laptop, then opened it and launched a browser by clicking it's icon on the left panel. After that all the panels in Gnome got stuck - clicking on the left or top panels gives nothing. I still can access the global menu via the Win key, also hot corners work. But the panels are not only frozen - they seem to be ignored by the window manager, because when I open some app, it is placed under a panel just like the panel did not exist at all.

These happened to me already twice.

I have:
Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, kernel 5.8.0-48-generic
Gnome version 3.36.8, Windowing System X11
HP Pavilion Laptop 15-cw1007nv

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1917939, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Dmitry Kuteynikov (kuteynikov)]

Thanks! As I see, the original bug only mentions the window positioning problems. In my case also mouse clicks are ignored by the panels.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

That might be a side-effect of bug 1917939 so you would need to wait for the fix to verify. If the clicking problem persists after that fix then it should be reported in a new bug.