GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 642664
looking glass console can get "stuck" if it looses keyboard focus
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:13:01 UTC
If the lg console loses keyboard focus its hard to get rid of it. This can happen for instance if you open up the overview while lg is visible and type something (will go to the search box). The only way to get focus back to lg is to click on the "tabs" or the "pick widget" actors in the lg console. Until you figure that out its basically "stuck".
the fix here is probably (1) it should be getting a pointer grab to keep you from interacting with objects outside itself, and (2) if it does see the keyboard focus go somewhere outside itself somehow, it should automatically close.
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