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

[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.

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