F17: gedit: drag & drop freezes forever mouse pointer on drag mode

[Pedro Francisco]

I need to confirm a bug.

Open one gedit window (MUST BE FROM GNOME-SHELL, either from ALT+F2
and 'gedit' or using the gnome-shell menus).

On a command line do, for example:
$ gedit ~/.bashrc
_Another_ gedit window should open.

To allow you to resume your work afterwards, on another console, do:
$ sleep 15; killall gedit

Try to drag and drop the ".bashrc" tab to the other gedit window.

Watch your mouse pointer freeze on drag mode, disabling it
effectively; keyboard does not seem to respond as well. After ~15
seconds, when gedit windows are killed, you'll get your mouse and
keyboard back.

Can anyone confirm?

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 16:55 +0100, Pedro Francisco wrote:
> I need to confirm a bug.
>
> Open one gedit window (MUST BE FROM GNOME-SHELL, either from ALT+F2
> and 'gedit' or using the gnome-shell menus).
>
> On a command line do, for example:
> $ gedit ~/.bashrc
> _Another_ gedit window should open.
>
> To allow you to resume your work afterwards, on another console, do:
> $ sleep 15; killall gedit
>
> Try to drag and drop the ".bashrc" tab to the other gedit window.
>
> Watch your mouse pointer freeze on drag mode, disabling it
> effectively; keyboard does not seem to respond as well. After ~15
> seconds, when gedit windows are killed, you'll get your mouse and
> keyboard back.
>
> Can anyone confirm?

Not easily, no. For a start, I've never quite figured out the trigger
for the case where a new window opens instead of the document opening in
the existing window: for me just following the above steps doesn't do
it, the .bashrc opens in the first gedit window, so I don't get two
windows at all).

[Pedro Francisco]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Adam Williamson  wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 16:55 +0100, Pedro Francisco wrote:
> > I need to confirm a bug.
>
> Not easily, no. For a start, I've never quite figured out the trigger
> for the case where a new window opens instead of the document opening in
> the existing window: for me just following the above steps doesn't do
> it, the .bashrc opens in the first gedit window, so I don't get two
> windows at all).

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes it stopped working for me as well....

Try this:
$ gedit &
$ killall nautilus ; nautilus /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-17 &

Now, double-click the "GPL" file. A new gedit window should appear.

To allow you to resume your work afterwards, on another console, do:
$ sleep 15; killall gedit

Try to drag and drop the gedit tab "GPL" to the other gedit window.

Watch your mouse pointer freeze on drag mode, disabling it
effectively; keyboard does not seem to respond as well. After ~15
seconds, when gedit windows are killed, you'll get your mouse and
keyboard back.

Can anyone confirm?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 3 May 2012 18:27:32 +0100, PF (Pedro) wrote:
> Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes it stopped working for me as well....
>
> Try this:
> $ gedit &
> $ killall nautilus ; nautilus /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-17 &
>
> Now, double-click the "GPL" file. A new gedit window should appear.
>
> To allow you to resume your work afterwards, on another console, do:
> $ sleep 15; killall gedit
>
> Try to drag and drop the gedit tab "GPL" to the other gedit window.
>
> Watch your mouse pointer freeze on drag mode, disabling it
> effectively; keyboard does not seem to respond as well. After ~15
> seconds, when gedit windows are killed, you'll get your mouse and
> keyboard back.
>
> Can anyone confirm?

Yes. Dragging the _tab_ of the gedit, that has loaded the GPL file,
to the empty gedit results in a freeze as described.

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 3 May 2012 21:00:21 +0200, MS (Michael) wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2012 18:27:32 +0100, PF (Pedro) wrote:
> > Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes it stopped working for me as well....
> >
> > Try this:
> > $ gedit &
> > $ killall nautilus ; nautilus /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-17 &
> >
> > Now, double-click the "GPL" file. A new gedit window should appear.
> >
> > To allow you to resume your work afterwards, on another console, do:
> > $ sleep 15; killall gedit
> >
> > Try to drag and drop the gedit tab "GPL" to the other gedit window.
> >
> > Watch your mouse pointer freeze on drag mode, disabling it
> > effectively; keyboard does not seem to respond as well. After ~15
> > seconds, when gedit windows are killed, you'll get your mouse and
> > keyboard back.
> >
> > Can anyone confirm?
>
> Yes. Dragging the _tab_ of the gedit, that has loaded the GPL file,
> to the empty gedit results in a freeze as described.

I've visited  http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/gedit  and found:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/808789

Steps on how to reproduce attached to that ticket.

[Pedro Francisco]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Michael Schwendt  wrote:
> I've visited  http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/gedit  and found:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/808789
>
> Steps on how to reproduce attached to that ticket.

Thanks!

I SIGSEGV'd gedit during the hang and uploaded the backtrace to that
bug report, I hope it's worth something.

[Nyako Stephen]

> it stopped working for me too

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Subject: Re: F17: gedit: drag & drop freezes forever mouse pointer on drag mode

On Thu, 3 May 2012 18:27:32 +0100, PF (Pedro) wrote:
> Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes it stopped working for me as well....
>
> Try this:
> $ gedit &
> $ killall nautilus ; nautilus /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-17 &
>
> Now, double-click the "GPL" file. A new gedit window should appear.
>
> To allow you to resume your work afterwards, on another console, do:
> $ sleep 15; killall gedit
>
> Try to drag and drop the gedit tab "GPL" to the other gedit window.
>
> Watch your mouse pointer freeze on drag mode, disabling it
> effectively; keyboard does not seem to respond as well. After ~15
> seconds, when gedit windows are killed, you'll get your mouse and
> keyboard back.
>
> Can anyone confirm?

Yes. Dragging the _tab_ of the gedit, that has loaded the GPL file,
to the empty gedit results in a freeze as described.