[Bug 1896188] Re: Overlays do not refresh anymore and get the desktop stuck
** 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" + --- ## 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. -- 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/1896188 Title: GTK Overlays do not refresh/exit and get the desktop stuck To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1896188/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1896188] Re: Overlays do not refresh anymore and get the desktop stuck
** 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. -- 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/1896188 Title: Overlays do not refresh anymore and get the desktop stuck To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1896188/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1896188] Re: Overlays do not refresh anymore and get the desktop stuck
On backup I had: mv: cannot stat '.gnome2': No such file or directory mv: cannot stat '.gconfd': No such file or directory mv: cannot stat '.metacity': No such file or directory but worked for the rest Also disabled all extensions (didn't have any active, but can't hurt) Restarting into that now ... -- 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/1896188 Title: Overlays do not refresh anymore and get the desktop stuck To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1896188/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1896188] Re: Overlays do not refresh anymore and get the desktop stuck
Trying hard reset of my config via: $ mkdir -p ~/.backup-gnome-config/ && for f in .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity .config/dconf; do mv $f ~/.backup-gnome-config/; done $ gnome-tweaks # then reset to defaults -- 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/1896188 Title: Overlays do not refresh anymore and get the desktop stuck To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1896188/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1896188] Re: Overlays do not refresh anymore and get the desktop stuck
** 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. + 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. -- 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/1896188 Title: Overlays do not refresh anymore and get the desktop stuck To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1896188/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1896188] Re: Overlays do not refresh anymore and get the desktop stuck
** 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. -- 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/1896188 Title: Overlays do not refresh anymore and get the desktop stuck To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1896188/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
