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Mouse gets stuck selecting a region on the desktop and no other meaningful input allowed #3713
Description
* Cinnamon version 5.0.6
* Distribution - Mint 20.2
* Graphics hardware *and* driver used - pasting in all the graphics info from inxi -Fxxxrz
* Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT]
vendor: XFX Pine driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 28:00.0
chip ID: 1002:731f
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: amdgpu,ati
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 5700 (NAVI10 DRM 3.35.0 5.4.0-89-generic
LLVM 12.0.0)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3 direct render: Yes
* 64 bit
* Attached: /var/log/syslog (but renamed to syslog.txt so it will upload)
Issue
Unable to click the mouse or meaningfully type with the keyboard after doing as described in the next section:
Steps to reproduce
Click on the desktop. Type any letter to bring up the desktop search above the clock.
Right click in the desktop search text box and select "Insert emoji"
Click on the desktop.
Move the mouse.
The mouse is now selecting a region on the desktop as one would by clicking and holding and dragging around except that now no meaningful input works. I can resolve this by logging out of the session using ctrl-alt-backspace and then logging back in.
Expected behaviour
Not that.
Other information
The attached syslog file is short because this is incredibly easy to reproduce so I just did it right after midnight local.
[quick edit for typo]
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syslog.txt
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Activity
InfoLibre commentedon Oct 23, 2021
I reproduced this bug.
You can use ALT-TAB and close as many software as possible.
After, you can use CTRL-ALT-F1, log in, use top command and kill nemo-desktop.
github-actions commentedon Mar 1, 2026
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InfoLibre commentedon Mar 1, 2026
Tested in Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.3, bug is still here.
JosephMcc commentedon Mar 1, 2026
Moved to Nemo, since it's a nemo issue.