Workaround found: Initiating a screenlock (ctrl-alt-L) and unlocking reliably restores panel and indicator bar responsiveness.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1351982 Title: top panel and launcher are unresponsive Status in Unity: New Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Unity has recently (~2014-07-15) started exhibiting two odd behaviors that are likely related: 1) The launcher, which is set to autohide, will appear and disappear in <1s (even though I hover over the launcher). It is unresponsive to clicks. 2) All applets in the top panel are unresponsive to clicks. 1 & 2 always occur together at some point during a session. That is, these components work correctly for hours (days?), then become unresponsive. I have not yet identified the trigger event; screenlocking or suspend/resume *may* be related, but not reliably so (i.e., I can't reproduce it this way). Restarting unity-panel-service (killall unity-panel-service) doesn't help. The problem is temporarily fixed by logging out/in or rebooting, but the issue recurs. The timing of the first occurrence (in July) is probably consistent with my first use of unity-tweak-tool to set focus follows mouse, although this hypothesis doesn't explain why the components initially work and then become unresponsive. Otherwise, my config is pretty stock. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: unity 7.2.2+14.04.20140714-0ubuntu1.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,imgpng,mousepoll,snap,resize,move,grid,unitymtgrabhandles,place,regex,gnomecompat,vpswitch,animation,expo,workarounds,ezoom,wall,session,fade,scale,unityshell] CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sun Aug 3 12:17:34 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-09 (662 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1) SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-21 (103 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1351982/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
