keyboard input occasionally stops working for some windows
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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meta-gnome3 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I can't provide steps to reproduce as the behaviour occurs seemingly randomly, but I've noticed that some GNOME windows occasionally stop responding to keyboard input.
In particular, the window has focus and window manipulation hotkeys work (maximise/
Right now I have a gVim window behaving like that, but I'm pretty sure it also happened with other applications.
The mouse continues to work as expected.
A workaround is to close the window and open a new one, after that it works.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gnome (not installed)
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Uname: Linux 5.4.0-174-generic x86_64
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ApportVersion: 2.20.11-
Architecture: amd64
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CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Jun 7 11:24:08 2024
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InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-10 (2219 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20160624-10:47
SourcePackage: meta-gnome3
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2023-10-02 (248 days ago)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.