Fedora 43 Beta - Dragging Chromium Window by Tab Crashes Gnome to Login Screen

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Given the many layers involved, I thought I’d try here first.

When you open Chromium (or Chrome) and simply drag the window by the tab, not the title bar, it will completely crash Gnome to the login screen.

This doesn’t seem exactly related to issues in the past with dragging Chromium windows to other displays.

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  • Date generated: 2025-09-18 06:31:46

Hardware Information:

  • Hardware Model: Framework Laptop 13 AMD Ryzen 7040Series
  • Memory: 32.0 GiB
  • Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 7 7840U w/ Radeon™ 780M Graphics × 16
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon™ 780M Graphics
  • Disk Capacity: 1.0 TB

Software Information:

  • Firmware Version: 03.16
  • OS Name: Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition Prerelease)
  • OS Build: (null)
  • OS Type: 64-bit
  • GNOME Version: 49
  • Windowing System: Wayland
  • Kernel Version: Linux 6.17.0-0.rc6.49.fc43.x86_64
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I have been able to recreate this on VMM with a completely vanilla install of Fedora 43 Beta

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Next step: show a stack trace.

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Please see the stacktrace as a "limewire” link as it was too large to put inline - if you would like it through another method, let me know:

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I had this issue with Brave also

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I see this link doesn’t appear to work, so I’ve uploaded it again and put the link as text inline

https://limewire.com/d/OGnc2#kj60VswR9O
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Now I’ve tried this on GNOME OS on today’s “nightly” in Boxes, I see the issue is present there.

It is: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/4324

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This has made todays Gnome OS nightly, so hopefully it’ll trickle through to f43 beta soon?

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I’m using silverblue. This but’s been there since the 9/17 update. I pinned the 9/16 update and the but isn’t there in that build. So it was introduced in a change between 9/16 and 9/17.

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The update to mutter today (which I think is the package that will have the update?) hasn’t solved the issue:

mutter-common-49.0-3.fc43.noarch
mutter-49.0-3.fc43.x86_64
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Today’s update fixed the issue, excellent stuff, thanks everyone!

mutter-common-49.0-4.fc43.noarch
mutter-49.0-4.fc43.x86_64
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Mostly just an FYI since you’ve discovered the fix but this was a known issue and actually a current blocker bug: 2397256 – gnome-shell crashes when dragging a Chromium tab into a new window