** 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)
- 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
-
- 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"
+ 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.
---
## 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.
** 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)
- reset the full gnome config back to pristine state and
