GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 766043
Mouse and UI gets stuck in "drag and drop" mode
Last modified: 2020-11-11 19:12:01 UTC
I am using Gnome 3.18.2 under Debian Jessie. I like PCManFM (v1.2.3) as file manager as it is lighter than Nautilus but when I am trying to extract some files from file-roller sometimes the UI crashes. When it does the mouse is suck with the drag and drop pointer and I cannot use it at all. I am not able to select any other window or even open a new command line using my sortcut Ctrl+shift+T. The only way I can fix it is opening a tty (via Ctrl+Alt+1) and killing the process file-roller. The way to reproduce the bug is very easy. Every time I try to extract a file from file-roller to PCManFM by drag and drop it crashes. But it does only if I move the file while dragging it, over the places panel (press F9 to open the panel, click on the file and move it over the panel). If I just drag and drop the file straight on a folder it does work properly. I don't know where to get some debug info from, but I will be happy to help. No error appears in the UI.
i am experiencing the same problem on Lubuntu 16.04, using file-roller 3.16.5 and PCManFM 1.2.4. But LXDE/Openbox is still reacting to keyboard shortcuts. I can Alt+F4 file-roller. There is nothing in stdout/stderr,too.
True, I can also Alt+F4 file-roller
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