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I love gnome, but this bug is driving me crazy.

This bug exists since I get my surface 3 (for years) , and I have no idea what is causing it.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you filed a bug somewhere in the issue tracker? I don't think anyone from the GNOME devs is using a surface, so if you don't provide any info, there's a good chance they don't even know about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, it is, seems like what I found. 2 years old issue, fix is ready but not pulled for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Classic Gnome

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

big thanks for you!!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wayland/X11/Xwayland? Which distro, which kernel?

Does this happen with all apps, or only with Console?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's Wayland. It happen with gtk based app, especially the menu button. It's always the menu button not working.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I found it! I can reproduce the issue, it's not random, we can open a bug report. It happens if you focus another window with the mouse, than even though you can focus the window with touch, the button won't work there.

The button works this way:

  1. Click on the header of the Console window with mouse
  2. Touching the menu button works on the Console window.
  3. Touching on any other menu buttons on different windows doesn't work.

The button doesn't work this way:

  1. Click to any other window or just on the empty desktop with mouse
  2. You can focus the window with touch, but the button doesn't work.

So in other words, it works only, if you focused the window with mouse previously. I can't see anything related to this in the logs. Please try to reproduce.

I'm still on Gnome 44, I would wait until I get Gnome 45, to see if maybe they fixed this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have an old touchscreen lenvo yoga, I use it with gnome and never noticed this. Checked it for this post, and it behaves the same way :) I use the touchscreen only for scrolling webpages, never wanted to touch buttons on the header, I never use it as a tablet, always in laptop mode.

Played a bit and I could reproduce the issue, in multiple apps, but I don't know when it happens. Also when it stops registering the touches it also stops registering touchpad clicks on the header buttons, so I guess it's not a touch only issue, I cannot even click on that ellipsis button with the touchpad anymore. Making the app fullscreen solves it sometimes, also opening the activities overview helped sometimes.

It seems totally random when it happens.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Mentioned by Philip goto, someone has already filed a report

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1523

And I am surprise how the bug exists for years and no-one brother it. Anyway, it's going to be fixed in future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, firefox does not recognize my touchscreen input in a few area. For example, you can not scroll on menu, history, and I am considering to file a report. Does this happen to you? Using Firefox on Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have no issues with firefox, I use it with these 2 envvars:

MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1

I will check that tomorrow, as I don't use touch for everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here is the video

As you can see, scrolling is available for webpage, but not in sub-menu.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's the same for me. But as a workaround scrolling works in the History pane (Ctrl+H) and in the Library (Ctrl+Shift+O)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Unrelated but the Activate GNOME watermark is just some kind of meme of Activate Windows, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

~~Yes, you can get it at here~~

No. I am too broke to buy the license of gnome :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I know these two environment, and it helps with webpage scrolling only. In some menu, like history menu, it does not scroll but drag the text only. Better file a bug report.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry this doesn't help the issue but can someone tell me what the cat animated icon is because I think I need it immediately, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its runcat, a extension to tell me the current cpu usage. Can also act as a short cut to system monitor, very useful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Glad to see another runcat user. It's a must have extension.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Am I the only seeing no description or photo of what the bug is as part of the main post? Is this some bug in lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Video may not shown in your lemmy client. Use this link instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I love the hand gesture at the end!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wow this is something new that I found out just now. Lemmy-ui was able to show the video but none of my clients are showing a video or even hinting towards the fact that there is something to show