Comment 3 for bug 752156

Ah good point Doug -- my test with G-Edit was not strictly comparable to the
Image viewer problem.

Having tried the test you have mentioned, yes the image is also visually
locked for G-Edit. The system wasn't locked, just the image. It seems that
launching other programs does load them (you can sometimes see them on the
launcher but the frozen program window (eg G-Edit) is displayed 'on top' so
that other running tasks can not be seen, being locked in the background.

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 18:57, Doug McMahon <email address hidden>wrote:

> nick wrote >
> >and I have tried it with a text file/Gedit and didn't get the same result
>
> What happens if you open a document in gedit, then drag a different
> document over to the launcher and hold over the gedit icon?
>
> After the launcher darkens, if still holding the icon does the screen
> darken, ect. and if you do release the file onto the launcher icon also
> get the freeze.?
>
> What I see is that if an app instance is already open, when using the
> drag to launcher feature that after about a sec. scale mode is invoked
> Releasing the file then will lock the desktop (no .crash created), if you
> don't drop the file on the launcher icon and move back to desktop things go
> back to normal
>
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> Title:
> dragging image to image viewer on launcher when image viewer is open
> freezes screen
>
> Status in Unity:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Image Viewer = Eye of Gnome
>
> When looking at an image with image viewer, I then drag a different
> image onto the launcher where it then hilights the relevant apps to
> open the image. Then the background goes dark (an effect) and the
> program centres on the screen. When I drop the image onto the image
> viewer the image viewer flashes and the screen locks up. I no longer
> have mouse usage (or at least I cannot see any effect). I can try to
> logout with keyboard shortcuts and the launcher icon appears for that
> but I can't use the mouse to access it.
>
> I've just noticed the bug does not appear if I drop the image on the
> launcher BEFORE the dark/centre affect takes effect.
>
> I have replicated this bug 3 or 4x on Natty, and I have tried it with
> a text file/Gedit and didn't get the same result, so it seems to
> relate to the image viewer rather than purely the launcher.
>
> NB: I'm running Natty Beta1 in a VirtualBox.
> Graphics: Nvidia 7600 GT - default (open?) driver
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