Bug 888185 - Keyboard and mouse doesn't work outside gnome-shell
Summary: Keyboard and mouse doesn't work outside gnome-shell
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-shell
Version: 18
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Owen Taylor
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-12-18 08:36 UTC by abyss.7
Modified: 2014-02-05 13:59 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-02-05 13:59:27 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description abyss.7 2012-12-18 08:36:59 UTC
Description of problem:
The applications don't catch mouse clicks and keyboard keys outside of gnome-shell window. I can open activities and clicks are working, I can lock the screen, but I can't type something inside text input or click on a button.

After I locked screen I can't enter the password, but can scroll-up the front picture.

After I quit to gdm with "login as another user" I can enter the password.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.6.2

How reproducible:
Once

Comment 1 joh.sauer 2013-01-27 17:39:15 UTC
Hi, 

I have the same problem. I'm using F18, also Gnome 3.6.2
For me the problem occurs about once a day. So far I haven't been able to cause it intentionally. Just a some point application don't respond to keyboard and mouse anymore. Although I still can go to activities and type and use the mouse there. 

As a workaround I can go to tty with CTRL ALT F2, log in as myself and do:

DISPLAY=:0 gnome-shell --replace

However that causes other problems for example I cannot lock screen anymore and I still have to reboot at the next convenient time.

I used the F18 beta and so I think I should now have F18 just by doing the updates, but I think it's worth mentioning it. Before I used F16 and didn't have any issues.

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