The video shows:
00:09 - opening the "Show Applications" overlay works fine at first.
00:14 - searching an application in there works
00:16 - I open gedit and would expect to get back onto the desktop.
But I can't it sticks within the overlay.
I tried to hit the "Escape" key, clicking on windows, clicking on the
background, ...
Nothing gets me back.
The menu bar at the bottom still works, so all I can do is restart the
system from there.
** Attachment added: "Video showcasing the issue"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1896188/+attachment/5412101/+files/desktop-stuck-in-overlay.ogv
** Tags added: apport-collected focal
** 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
---
## Odd things that might (or not) be related:
Only read this section as "could it help me to understand the main issue
above", but not as individual or grouped report of other issues into one
bug.
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.
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".
I thought that would be great for debugging, but I got this happening only
once while the issue with the application search overlay remains.
---
- 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.
+ 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.
+ ---
+ ProblemType: Bug
+ ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.8
+ Architecture: amd64
+ CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
+ CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
+ DisplayManager: gdm3
+ DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
+ InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-12 (706 days ago)
+ InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64
(20180725)
+ NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
+ Package: gnome-shell 3.36.4-1ubuntu1~20.04.2
+ PackageArchitecture: amd64
+ ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-47.51-generic 5.4.55
+ RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.4-0ubuntu0.20.04.2
+ Tags: focal
+ Uname: Linux 5.4.0-47-generic x86_64
+ UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-03 (167 days ago)
+ UserGroups: adm cdrom dip libvirt lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sbuild sudo
+ _MarkForUpload: True
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