Public bug reported: After I wiped down my laptop's touchscreen with a wipe, GNOME went to the "Activities" screen (I must've hit the button while wiping down the screen), then GNOME became unresponsive.
By unresponsive, I don't mean it froze. The mouse cursor still moved smoothly. It even recognized touch events by hiding the cursor when I tapped the screen. But it ignored literally everything else. The one other thing that changed the UI was changing my keyboard's backlight, which caused a volume-esque dialog to show up notifying me of the change, before quickly fading. I couldn't even use the Fn-Ctrl-Alt-X keys to switch to a TTY. I then closed my laptop's lid to put it to sleep and reopened it a little while later. The lockscreen was perfectly functional, but once I logged back in, the problem remained. Although Fn-Ctrl-Alt-X keys worked again. At that point I gave up and restarted my laptop. It's a good thing I didn't have anything important unsaved, or I could've just lost my data because I wiped down my touchscreen. I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 Wayland, GNOME Shell 42.2 (according to gnome- shell --version). ** Affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1993592 Title: GNOME becomes unresponsive after wiping down touchscreen To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1993592/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs