** Description changed: Hi, this must sound odd, but to me most Desktop bugs do :-/ The issue: - If I hit the meta key the usual "search app" overlay appears. - I search for an application and start it - the overlay does NOT disappear anymore - the miniature images of the just started app seems fine - without being able to leave the overlay I'm stuck unable to input into applications anymore - Things like mouse and alt+f4 seem to work, therefore it seems to work fine but not update the screen correctly. There are other "screen update issues" that started to occur with the above e.g. when I start firefox it only displays and later updates part of the window. Resizing the window (bigger) does not change the displayed area. The way I can start applications in UI for now is via the run-command on ALT+F2 entering the app directly. ## Tries to resolve so far: - I have seen similar issues due to different themes that after upgrades fail to work well. I usually used the "Yaru" theme, but I switched back to the default theme (Adawaita) and issues remain. - starting the overlay with a mouse click to the menu icon instead of meta key => fails as well - Go into lock screen and log back in - still in the hanging overlay - go back to the last known working kernel (5.4.0-42) without any change in behavior (=seems not kernel related) - - ## Tries to resolve that I want to do but don't yet know how: - - reset the full gnome config back to pristine state (maybe back up my old one) so we could check if "any" config is related to this. + - reset the full gnome config back to pristine state and reboot. Well I can confirm that all config seems lost, but the issue still behaves the same + - Remove all packages that I considered not immediately needed (but not things of the default install, you know all those things you installed once and never needed) to ensure they have no bad influence - still bad --- ## Odd things happened recently that might (or not) be related: Yesterday I had programs with text areas (gedit, gvim, ...) stuck. The text panels just didn't initialize anymore - they stayed inactive. All of such programs that I started before worked fine and I was assuming some auto-update in background might have broken things. Therefore I tried to close out my open work and reboot after a full upgrade of whatever packages were still outstanding to upgrade. But this left me with the current problem. BTW - now such editors initialize and work fine again. --- I'll try to capture it on video so you can make more sense of it and also probably re-target it to the right component as well as letting me know what to do for better debugging.
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