I sometimes find that not only mouse clicks get blocked, but everything except ubuntu-dock and the Activities overview stops accepting input. (I can't ALT-F2 to restart gnome, and I can't ALT-tab between apps.) On a couple of occasions I found that it was a single app that had captured input (and crashed), and quitting the rogue app via ubuntu-dock or the Activities overview fixed the issue. But this isn't always possible because some applications put up a dialog asking if you want to quit, and since you can't click on the dialog box, you can't quit them.
Is the bug I'm describing related to this one, or something different? FWIW, I did find that "killall -3 gnome-shell" will restart the shell without closing your applications if you can manage to get to a tty console. Is there a way to restart the shell from the Activities overview? That would be a good workaround for this bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1181666 Title: gnome-shell randomly blocks mouse clicks from working in app windows To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/1181666/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
