Hello, sent there by some reference of 'pushModal: invocation of begin_modal failed', this seems the best ticket to share infos.
Here I can reproduce the issue on Arch Linux and 2 different desktop display, gnome nautilus with gnome files and also on cinnamon with nemo On cinnamon and nemo, I'm creating a *.desktop file with a missing icon file on disk specified in Icon= Steps to reproduce: *) download poc.desktop to your ~/ *) desktop-file-install --dir=~/.local/share/applications/ poc.desktop *) update-desktop-database -v ~/.local/share/applications/ *) reboot Without a icon named IDoNotExists.xpm/png installed, I get the window focus problem, repeating the procedure with the icon present fixes immediately the problem -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1181666 Title: gnome-shell randomly blocks mouse clicks from working in app windows To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/1181666/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs