Interrupting screen dimming partly locks session
Affected version
Fedora 36 gnome-shell-42.0-2.fc36.x86_64 mutter-42.0-3.fc36.x86_64 Affects both Xorg and Wayland
Bug summary
Interrupting screen dimming causes system to freeze
Steps to reproduce
- Interrupt screen dimming
What happened
We're observing different effects on different machines. It varies between following:
- unresponsive top panel
- other window not selectable
- no hover-over effect for buttons in top bar
- click on "Activities" in upper left corner - does not switch to overview mode
- right mouse button on desktop - context menu does not show up
- selecting buttons in the currently selected window - works (gnome-control-center)
- selecting buttons in the currently selected window - does not work (firefox)
- in some cases even completely frozen screen
These problems disappear after using keyboard - eg. pressing the Super button or just simply typing something.
What did you expect to happen
No issues and behavior differences after interrupted screen dimming.