Issue with focus on window

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Hello Community!

I am totally confused. Past the last day my system have a strange behavior. Sometimes I am not able to click on a window. The focus stay on the window before. Sometimes a short time of wait fix this, and sometimes I have to log out.

Thanks for any hint.

Best regards

Simon

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Are you able to change focus with the keyboard? (Meta + arrow keys)

Is there any pattern to what application it gets “stuck” on? What examples come to mind for a window that it became stuck on?

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Probably not the cause, but if a window spawns a child window, depending on the code it may not allow the Parent window to have focus until the child window is closed.

Just something to look for.

Pudge

4

You might want to check how full your hard disk is, or how much free RAM you have left.
For example, commands

df -hT
free -h

could show them.
And it can be a hardware problem too, e.g. with the mouse.

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@BluishHumility
This is the only way that I could use. With Meta + arrow keys I can change the window and type there.
Every kind of application gets “stuck”. I think the Signal Desktop app and other programs which use Electron could be the problem.

@Pudge
It also happens without opening a new window or a child window.

@manuel
Also the pad from the laptop is harmed. So it is not a hardware issue. The laptop 16 gb of memory and more than 50% free when it happens.

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MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 firefox

Forcing Firefox into Wayland mode seems to fix the issue for me.