[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1741902] Re: Drag and drop state may be freezed by rogue application

2018-01-15 Thread Alberts Muktupāvels
>From your bug: "Windows can still be bought to front by clicking them, but never gain focus and no application (besides nautlilus I guess, which is stalled) receives clicks or keystrokes." This sounds like nautilus has grabbed mouse & keyboard when it started drag & drop operation. From what I

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1741902] Re: Drag and drop state may be freezed by rogue application

2018-01-12 Thread dronus
As I already mentioned, I am aware that nautilus is triggering the problem. However, no program should be able to bring down the desktop by doing bad UI operations. Period. So wether metacity or Xorg or anything I never even heard of is the right space to solve this issue is out of my reach,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1741902] Re: Drag and drop state may be freezed by rogue application

2018-01-11 Thread Alberts Muktupāvels
Well, I don't know how drag & drop works so I can not say that it is bug in X server. I would start by reporting / re-assigning this bug to nautilus especially if it is only app that causes this problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1741902] Re: Drag and drop state may be freezed by rogue application

2018-01-08 Thread dronus
I thought Metacity is the component that has to deal with inter- application interaction. Seems I am wrong? I already know that a bug in nautlius is the trigger of the problem, however no application should be able to lock drag and drop state on its own without any way to exit it. So the only

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1741902] Re: Drag and drop state may be freezed by rogue application

2018-01-08 Thread Alberts Muktupāvels
Why do you think that Metacity is the one who freezes? Have you tried other window managers and/or sessions and this happens only with Metacity? The thing is that Metacity does not do anything with drag and drop so that might be bug in nautilus and/or xserver. Can you provide steps that I can

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1741902] Re: Drag and drop state may be freezed by rogue application

2018-01-08 Thread dronus
Please add critical as bug results in system state forcing users to hard reboot with potential data loss. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1741902 Title: Drag and drop