** 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
  
  ## 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.
  
  ---
  
  ## 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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Title:
  Overlays do not refresh anymore and get the desktop stuck

Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  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.

  ---

  ## 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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