drag-and-drop suddenly stops working in app running under Wayland until I restart app

[Jonathan Kamens]

Many times since I upgraded to 17.10 and started using GNOME on Wayland as my desktop, I've found in Thunderbird that I suddenly stopped being able to drag and drop messages into folders. I can click and hold the message and drag it, but when I hover my mouse over the destination folder nothing happens.

This seems to be a problem related to gnome-shell + Wayland, because after like the nth time it happened I was sufficiently annoyed that I decided to find out if it would occur under Xorg, and in the week+ since I switched to from Wayland to Xorg it hasn't happened a single time.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.26.1-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Nov 17 21:37:58 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-05-19 (182 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-20 (28 days ago)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

As this sounds closely related to Xwayland we should include xorg-server (the Xwayland source), and mutter (the thing that launches and manages Xwayland).

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Jonathan,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with drag-and-drop in Thunderbird under Wayland. You made this bug report some time ago and Ubuntu and Thunderbird have been updated since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug?
If you are, could you let us know and, run the following (only once):
apport-collect 1733033
and upload the updated logs and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Thunderbird better.
G

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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