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Bug 676918 - Alt-F2 + mouse middle button paste causes freeze
Alt-F2 + mouse middle button paste causes freeze
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-05-27 09:48 UTC by Matej
Modified: 2012-09-12 17:24 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: 3.6
GNOME version: ---



Description Matej 2012-05-27 09:48:12 UTC
1) select text with mouse
2) press Alt-F2 to get gnome-shell command line
3) press middle mouse button to paste the selected text

This causes the shell command line to become unresponsive. The command line is not responding to keys or mouse clicks. Gnome-shell is still working, e.g. keyboard layout switcher keyboard shortcut is working - the indicator is changing the layout code. 

Only way out is to go the text mode console Ctrl-Alt-F1 and restart the shell (kill -HUP <shell pid>).
Comment 1 André Klapper 2012-05-27 14:53:01 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> 1) select text with mouse

Where? Exact steps to reproduce welcome...

> This causes the shell command line to become unresponsive

Which distribution is this about? Any extensions installed?
Comment 2 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2012-05-27 15:07:15 UTC
Here middle-click has no effect in the Alt+F2 dialog, and everything still works fine after an attempt. Shell 3.4.1 on Fedora 17.
Comment 3 Matej 2012-05-27 15:18:15 UTC
More detailed steps:

1) select some text with mouse in gnome-terminal
2) press Alt-F2 to get gnome-shell command line
3) write something (e.g. "a")
4) press middle mouse button to paste the selected text

Distribution is Ubuntu 12.04, gnome-shell package version 3.4.1-0ubuntu2. All shell extensions disabled.

Without step 3 the middle click paste has also no effect for me.
Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2012-05-27 18:54:07 UTC
middle-click paste also freeze the shell in the search entry in the overview. Thats bad
Comment 5 Carlos Soriano 2012-06-20 09:51:04 UTC
I'm working on it. Seems a clutter fault managing clutter.c an its signals.
Comment 6 Carlos Soriano 2012-06-20 09:51:50 UTC
sorry, I meant managing clutter-text
Comment 7 Matthias Clasen 2012-07-05 17:49:59 UTC
Carlos, did you come to any conclusions ?
Comment 8 Matthias Clasen 2012-07-23 17:09:26 UTC
Florian, could have a look at this instead ?
Comment 9 Florian Müllner 2012-09-12 17:24:19 UTC
This was one of the issues caused by using a ClutterClickAction with ClutterText; we no longer do this, so this is fixed now.