Comment 82 for bug 1181666

The solution until this is solved is to use something other than gnome
shell as far as I know. Mint Cinnamon and Elementary are both popular
alternatives.

On Sun, Feb 10, 2019, 1:29 PM Adrian <<email address hidden> wrote:

> I am facing the same issue in Ubuntu 18.10. The super key randomly stops
> working and I loose control of all windows except for the active window,
> which in some cases also stops working and cannot even do clicks there.
> The workaround I found is to close all windows, lock the screen and the
> problem solves for 5-10 min or so. But this is clearly impractical and I
> can't really go on like this any further. I re-installed the OS but it
> didn't solve the issue. I have a Lenovo T430s if that helps. Does anyone
> found a solution to this yet? I'd appreciate it very much!
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1181666
>
> Title:
> gnome-shell randomly blocks mouse clicks from working in app windows
>
> Status in GNOME Shell:
> Confirmed
> Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
> Confirmed
> Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in mutter package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Under GNOME 3, the use of the mouse-click stops occasionally, though I
> can still move the mouse around and can still click on items in the
> Activities screen and the top-bar.
>
> I can use alt-tab to cycle windows and can still type into already-
> active textboxes in windows, but I cannot click within the windows,
> and the mouse is not picked up at all by the windows.
>
> I can open the alt-f2 "run command" dialogue, but cannot type into it.
>
> The workaround I'm using is to open terminal (ctrl-alt-T) and run
> "gnome-shell -r", and restarting that command every time I have the
> problem again.
>
> Please ask if there's anything I forgot to mention.
>
> ADDITIONAL: The error tends to happen randomly, but it seems to happen
> upon opening a new window, changing windows, closing windows, or
> opening the activities pane (whether a change of window is thus
> instigated or not)
>
> ADDITIONAL 2: (sorry, it's early) The other workaround is to log out
> and to log in again, but that is also less than ideal
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
> Package: gnome-shell 3.6.3.1-0ubuntu6
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-22.33-generic 3.8.11
> Uname: Linux 3.8.0-22-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Sun May 19 07:02:18 2013
> DisplayManager: gdm
> GsettingsChanges:
> b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'clock-show-date' b'true'
> b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'clock-show-seconds' b'true'
> b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'document-font-name' b"'Sans 10'"
> b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'font-name' b"'Cantarell 10'"
> b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'monospace-font-name' b"'Ubuntu Mono
> 12'"
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-04 (14 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64
> (20130424)
> MarkForUpload: True
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: gnome-shell
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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