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

[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.

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Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) - Linux 3.3.4-1.fc17.x86_64
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