nautilus no longer accept left mouse clicks
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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netbeans (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: nautilus
I was using NetBeans to edit a file and NetBeans got into a mode where the mouse was "stuck in select drag" mode. That is, with no mouse buttons pressed, the greyed select region followed my mouse as if I had started a select mouse gesture. ESC did not free it. Once this happened, I could not interact with anything on the desktop or anything else at all that required a left click. It was if the left click button ceased to work.
I suspect Nautilus (as it is managing the root window) missed an event that would free the select gesture leaving the cursor in constant drag mode. I had to CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to a console and reboot the computer. I could not log out.
ALT-TAB still worked. And applications that have keyboard shortcuts still worked.
Even if the fault lies with Java or NetBeans, the nautilus should recover from this situation using some means.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: nautilus 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 48d893255053224
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a55581
Date: Thu Apr 29 19:33:16 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100406.1)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Thank you for your bug report, it's not likely a nautilus issue, rather a weird one time issue for one user, letting it open there in case somebody wants to pick it up but it should probably be turned out to a question or something since it's not likely it will be worked