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gnome-shell package

overview sometimes stuck after pressing super

Bug #2042993 reported by Emeris on 2023-11-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #2042973: Desktop becomes unusable after changing window from fullscreen games on Wayland Only . Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-shell (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I press super a lot to see progress of other applications or the system time from activities overview when in a fullscreen application, such as a steam game.
Occasionally the activities overview will not show any applications nor the desktop, but only the gray background and the search bar (although applications on the dock will still be visible and selectable, just not interactable other than audio). The clock and quick settings are the only things that work normally in this state as not even the activities search bar is responsive. The only way I've been able to exit is by restarting the computer. I'm going to try using Xorg to restart gnome next time but I've not tested that yet.
This issue hasn't seemed to occur in any situations other than running full screen applications. Although, given that I don't often use activities overview outside of fullscreen apps, that may not be required for the bug to occur.
This bug started after upgrading to Ubuntu 23.10.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
Package: gnome-shell 45.0-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-10.10-generic 6.5.3
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Nov 7 23:01:44 2023
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-05-03 (553 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220419)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
SHELL=/bin/bash
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 45.0-3ubuntu3
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to mantic on 2023-10-17 (22 days ago)

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Emeris (emeris4017) wrote on 2023-11-08:

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GsettingsChanges.txt Edit (4.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2023-11-08:

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 2042973, 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.