Description of problem: Using a notebook tablet, stylus will not work after pressing special key (Microsoft Windows logo in most case). As consequence, it is impossible to press any item like Activites on top panel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.28.0-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Switch to gnome-shell from Desktop Effect 2. Press special key 3. Trying to use stylus to select items Actual results: No input from stylus Expected results: There should be a stylus input on any items Additional info: Smolt profile: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/?uuid=pub_5ffd9a1a-8ea0-448f-bc97-607fe1aaf38d
Could you explain how the stylus is configured on this machine? I'm not familiar with this sort of setup, and can't even find the stylus in the smolt information. Does the stylus work to select items in GTK+ menus?
Created attachment 385205 [details] Xorg.0.log from LT20 laptop The stylus is automatically configured from xorg-x11-drv-wacom. I included xorg.0.log. The stylus input only works inside gnome-shell desktop, not the panel nor the sidebar.
(In reply to comment #1) > Does the stylus work to select items in GTK+ menus? An answer to this would be appreciated. (What I'm asking is whether it works to select a menu item like "File/Open" in an application like gedit.)
(In reply to comment #3) > An answer to this would be appreciated. (What I'm asking is whether it works to > select a menu item like "File/Open" in an application like gedit.) Yes, it does.
After thinking about this a bit, this probably has nothing to do with your stylus and is instead a graphics driver bug. (Clutter draws an offscreen copy of the scene to find out what object is under the cursor, and the way it does it often triggers graphics drivers bug.) And in fact, we already have a bug open for the Intel 855 about this, so I'll mark this as a duplicate. I do appreciate you taking the time to report the problem. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 521714 ***
Good to know. I will follow report on #521714 until Clutter bug is fixed.