Comment 108 for bug 1181666

Hi guys,

Since I updated Ubuntu from 16.04 to 17.10 (I curse that day...) it's happening almost every time I login (after a fresh boot). I never had this problem before (or it happen so rare that I never noticed it). I played with different driver versions without success.

In my case, my wife usually log in and start Chrome (I'm quite sure it's not Chrome related because I have same behavior with Firefox or just other applications), opening few tabs, and few to dozen seconds after login she can't change tabs. I'm able to open terminal with keyboard shortcut but not to make window active. Some controls react on mouse, other don't.
Strange thing I observed too (it might not be related to this problem) is Home dir icon in top left corner - after login it's showing under Top bar (top bar overlaps icon). When I open first window (ex. browser) it's refreshing desktop and moving icon properly down a little (top bar don't overlap it anymore).

Simplest wat to get rid of issue is to switch to TTY (Ctrl + Alt + F1) and then back to X (Ctrl + F7) - after that, like with magic wound touch, problem disappear for some time. After another 10, 15, 30 minutes problem arrive again.

I checked Xorg.log - nothing. Nothing in syslog. No error I could google for.

I'm sick of it - today I said enough. I decided to do something with it.
I consider myself experienced Linux Sys Admin - tell me what you need to fix this and I will do my best to help.