Big parts of windows unclickable

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I use Fedora for two days now and I noticed, that big parts of windows become unclickable from time to time.
I noticed it in IntelliJ and Lightworks. It looks like there was a big invisible window in front of the one I’m using. The cursor even shapes like there was a window to resize.

At the beginning of the video you can see the cursor changing, when I move to the borders of the unclickable area. (I click all the time in the video, but nothing happens in the big middle area.)

Any ideas on that? Thanks in advance.

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I ran into this too, specifically with Intellij Rider on Fedora

Looking around for a solution, I stumbled across this post

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/759038/border-only-ghost-window-blocking-mouse-clicks

When I tried using that application mentioned in the post (xwininfo) and looked up the corresponding process id, it connected back to mutter-x11-frames process.

Which got me thinking, Fedora plans on fully removing x11 support at some point in the future, and it’s possible that a recent update by Fedora or Rider, or both, did something with the x11 stuff

So, I took a look at Rider and wayland support, apparently they are working on getting that fully up to speed, or at least from what I can tell from this article

https://blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2024/07/wayland-support-preview-in-2024-2/

When I opted in, that window seems to have gone away and hasn’t come back as far as I can tell

You will need to restart Intellij for that vm option to work

I’m not a user of Lightworks, so not sure what you can do for that

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Thank you very much, I will definitely try that!

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Here’s a Reddit post talking about this bug that has affected lots of users:

It contains instructions to downgrade both Fedora Workstation and Fedora Silverblue to the latest stable version before the bug.

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I think downgrading should be a last resort solution since an emergency hotfix should be soon be made available to update Bump version to 48.3.1 (!4469) · Merge requests · GNOME / mutter · GitLab

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