Zoom window not centered on text cursor

[Niels van Schagen]

In certain applications, the zoomed in window moves to center on the text cursor instead of the pointer when typing but it does not focuses properly. This causes the typed text to be completely out of view. I use the default full-screen zoom in Ubuntu under the accessibility settings with the following settings:

Magnification: 4.00 - 6.00
Magnifier position: Follow mouse cursor

The problem primarily occurs when using Alt+Tab to witch tabs, but it sometimes appears when switching
normally.

To reproduce the problem, the following steps can be followed:
- Activate the zoom function.
- Start up Files and rename a file.
- The zoomed in window will move to the upper left corner.

Other applications in which the problem sometimes occurs (mostly when using Alt+Tab):
Firefox, VSCode
I also want to note that for other applications like Text Editor or Terminal, the cursor is always followed correctly.

lsb_release -rd:
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
Release: 22.04

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[Paul White (paulw2u)]

@niels862 further to comment #1, bug reports filed against the Ubuntu project without specifying a package will seldom attract the attention of those that can help resolve problems.

I'm moving this to the 'mutter' package.

This will bring your report to the attention of Ubuntu's Desktop Team which will assess your issue and move to the correct package if necessary.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Sounds like https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/5557 ?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

See also bug 2024403

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

The upstream issue just moved from
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/5557
to
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/2873