System menu while open blocks mouse clicks in the top left corner
Affected version
- Fedora 37
- gnome-shell-43.0-3.fc37.x86_64
- Both Wayland and Xorg
Bug summary
If you open the system menu in the top right corner, you can't click anywhere in the top left corner. Your click will not make the system menu disappear, and it will not activate any widgets (e.g. the Activities button, or some app widgets you have in the top left area). If you click anywhere else on your desktop, it works as expected (the click will make the system menu disappear).
The area which "blocks" mouse clicks seems to be roughly equivalent to the area occupied by the system menu, just mirrored to the left half of the screen. For example on this screenshot, the red dots denote the area in which mouse clicks are ignored:
Steps to reproduce
- Move some app to the left corner of the screen
- Open the System menu
- Try to click into the app in the left corner, you can't. You also can't click on Activities. You have to close the System menu first.
- Try to click somewhere else, e.g. in the middle of the screen. The System menu gets closed as expected.
Relevant logs, screenshots, screencasts etc.
Here's a video screencast of the bug. When my mouse cursor is in the affected area, I'm constantly clicking, until I find a border of that area, where my mouse clicks starts behaving as expected (which paints a red dot).