I've seen this same bug three times in the past two days on a new (up- to-date) ubuntu 19.10 system. The bug is NOT therefore unique to 19.04. Clicking anywhere on the dialog does in fact produce the behavior that would be appropriate for clicking whatever is below the dialog. This appears therefore to be an incorrect painting problem in gnome shell. Restarting gnome-shell (<alt><F2> enter r) does in fact get rid of the incorrectly painted dialog.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1824874 Title: undismissable, unclickable authentication dialog left on screen (top- left corner) after policykit authentication [pushModal: invocation of begin_modal failed] Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: In disco, when policykit prompted me for a password in order for update-manager to dispatch instructions to aptdaemon to perform package updates, the password dialog remained on the screen after I clicked 'authenticate'. The window is not clickable, it appears not to even be a window - mouse presses are received by the window underneath. The exception is that the 'cancel' button is active and receives mouse events - but clicking it does nothing. This may be a gnome-shell issue rather than policykit. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: policykit-1 0.105-25 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-8.9-generic 5.0.1 Uname: Linux 5.0.0-8-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Apr 15 13:14:33 2019 InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-09-24 (3125 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1) SourcePackage: policykit-1 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-04-11 (3 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1824874/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp