It happened again here. I can confirm what Jani's saying: while launcher
seems to be wedged, it still responds to desktop events like
alerts/wiggles and applications being launched and closed. Clicking an
icon triggers displaying the name tooltip (which is no longer triggered
by hovering), but nothing else.

Possible clue: This time, i was alert enough to observe that when the
bug was triggered, it happened while my system was busy swapping heavily
enough for mouse cursor movement to become jerky. I suspect that the
accidental "drag" may have been a normal click + mouse movement whose
sequence of events got delayed or interfered with by the disk I/O. I'm
not familiar with the code, but would an unusual or unexpected sequence
of mouse / click events be able to put the launcher into this bad state?

Another note: I was using the NVIDIA driver this time, not the Nouveau
one, so the problem doesn't seem to be related to them.

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Title:
  [launcher] icons no longer active after an incomplete drag (no
  reliable way to reproduce yet)

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