Now the description is complete in regard to all things worth to try that came
to my mind.
Also the apport data as well as the video is attached.
Setting back to new for re-review by the Desktop Team.
P.S. is the overlay an application on it's own that I could try to kill from a
console?
P.P.S. Can I somehow disable the "Show applications" overlay to not open as I
can't stop muscle memory to open it and then I'm forced to reboot.
** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
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Title:
Show Application Overlay does not exit anymore getting 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
- I usually have a lot of screen attached, to be sure that is unrelated I
undocked the laptop and restarted with just the one laptop screen -> still the
same issue
- 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)
- 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
I attached a video of the issue down below so you can take a look.
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## Odd things that might (or not) be related:
Only read this section as "could it help me to understand the main
issue above", but not as individual or grouped report of other issues
into one bug.
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.
While trying to create a video of this I found another helpful hint - this
really seems to affect all overlays. Usually for UI-bug-videos I use the
program "screenkey" which itself does an overlay showing the keys that were
pressed. That as well got stuck and I could not get back to a working desktop.
So it seems this is about a general "overlays are bad" more than "the
application search overlay is bad".
I thought that would be great for debugging, but I got this happening only
once while the issue with the application search overlay remains.
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.8
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DisplayManager: gdm3
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-12 (706 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64
(20180725)
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
Package: gnome-shell 3.36.4-1ubuntu1~20.04.2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-47.51-generic 5.4.55
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.4-0ubuntu0.20.04.2
Tags: focal
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-47-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-03 (167 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip libvirt lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sbuild sudo
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