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Bug 611497 - Double-clicking page grabs cursor, locks up X display
Double-clicking page grabs cursor, locks up X display
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Backend
2.29.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Xan Lopez
Epiphany Maintainers
: 602351 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-03-01 16:19 UTC by Sam Morris
Modified: 2010-03-15 21:08 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Sam Morris 2010-03-01 16:19:32 UTC 
In longer web pages, I have the habit of selecting text as I read it. I do this by double-clicking and dragging to set the selection. When I do this with epiphany, I often end up locked out of my X display!

The cursor changes to the drag and drop cursor, but releasing the mouse inside or outside of epiphany does not end the drag. I am, in fact, no longer able to click on _anything_ on the screen. The only way to recover from this situation is to ssh in from another host and kill epiphany off.
Comment 1 Dan Winship 2010-03-01 16:38:28 UTC 
i've seen this too, but then i couldn't reproduce it
Comment 2 Sam Morris 2010-03-01 16:40:12 UTC 
It's pretty easy to reproduce for me. If someone can suggest something useful I can do with gdb then I'm happy to gather more info. :)
Comment 3 Diego Escalante Urrelo (not reading bugmail) 2010-03-01 19:58:34 UTC 
Sam, as a workaround when you get the locked cursor try clicking and dragging a link in the page, after releasing (wherever) your cursor will be back, I'm surviving it like that nowadays.
Comment 4 Xan Lopez 2010-03-01 20:02:16 UTC 
This is a WebKit bug: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32840
Comment 5 Sam Morris 2010-03-05 10:26:44 UTC 
If you do this with an image then there is no way to get epiphany to release the mouse.
Comment 6 Reinout van Schouwen 2010-03-15 09:13:43 UTC 
*** Bug 602351 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***