Gnome-terminal windows got lost and stuck after several gnome-shell restarts
Submitted by Romano Giannetti
Link to original bug (#730261)
Description
Created attachment 276679 Three screenshots of stuck gnome-terminal-windows.
To reproduce the bug, do the following (tested on Ubuntu-Gnome 14.04, with gnome-shell 3.10.4; both on a real machine and in a virtual machine). If that could make a difference, I have "sloppy" focus mode.
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Open several gnome-terminal instances, in the same or different virtual desktop. Some of them have multiple tabs (I do not know if this last thing is relevant).
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Restart gnome-shell (Alt-F2 r) several time, moving the windows and doing things in the terminals between restarts (developing extensions, for example).
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after a variable number of restarts (three to six-seven, really variable) the shell "lose" the gnome-terminal windows, or at least lose some of them. That means:
3.1 The "lost" gnome terminal windows are invisible in normal view. They are visible in the overview mode, you can click on them, but they disappears as soon as the normal view come back. You have to killall gnome-terminal and then restart it to have functional windows.
3.2 Sometime you can recover the window moving it to another virtual desktop. Now this windows change to "stuck". That means:
3.2.1 the stuck window is sticky (in all the desktops) and in front of anything else. It is still working though; you can write in it.
3.2.2 the stuck window is not visible in overview mode.
3.2.3 if you exit the shell, or killall gnome-terminal at that point, the stuck window become dead. Still stick, still in front of everything, still not visible in overview.
3.2.4 Now the only way out is restart gnome-shell, killall gnome-terminal, restart gnome-shell again.
There is a bug in launchpad about this --- it is more general but I have seen this behavior only with gnome-terminal (terminator windows works ok). The bug is at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1215798
I have screenshots of stuck windows to help explain myself --- will try to attach them.
Attachment 276679, "Three screenshots of stuck gnome-terminal-windows.":
StuckGnomeTerminal.zip
Version: 3.6.x
Resolution: RESOLVED OBSOLETE