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

[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).
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