persistent Grey square on the top left hand corner of the screen while doing to drag and drop

Kamil Paral kparal at redhat.com
Mon May 6 15:06:48 UTC 2013


> > I use rawhide and whenever I drag and drop the files using nautilus or
> > nemo  there is a persistent square on the top left hand corner of my
> > screen both in gnome-shell and xfce. It disappears with closing of the
> > file manager.
> > can you guys help?
> > here is the screenshot.
> > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106654446/Screenshot%20from%202013-05-06%2010%3A24%3A56.png
> 
> >>Run "xprop | grep CLASS" and click on that square. That should tell us
> >>which process is drawing it.
> 
> 
> 
> >[freedom at localhost ~]$ xprop | grep CLASS
> >WM_CLASS(STRING) = "nemo", "Nemo"
> >[freedom at localhost ~]$ xprop | grep CLASS
> >WM_CLASS(STRING) = "nautilus", "Nautilus"
> 
> 
> > its the window manager that's creating it.
> 
> My bad. Its the file manager!

Yes, it is. Well, I can't really help you any further (maybe someone else does), but at least you can be certain now that you should report a bug against Nautilus (Nemo is a fork).


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