Comment 55 for bug 1181666

I am experiencing this issue and it's just totally crippling. I can't keep a session going for more than a few minutes without suddenly losing the ability to interact with applications.

The specifics of my experience more closely match bug #1730229 - although that is marked as a duplicate of this one. Specifically, unlike this issue (but like bug #1730229), I am unable to use alt-f2 once the issue manifests itself.

Other mentioned workarounds in this thread do not work for me, including switching-to-tty-and-back, logging-out-and-back-in, and alt-tab.

I have also disabled gnome-shell extensions altogether and set the number of workspaces to 1. Any other ideas for a temporary workaround?