Desktop icons not responding to mouse click

#Desktop icons not responding to mouse click how to

One of the Gnome shells was not accessible to me so I killed the other one. I went to system monitor found the Gnome shell and killed it.

Wow, I think I may have at least found a workaround fix.

#Desktop icons not responding to mouse click how to

If anyone knows how to fix this I would be most appreciative. And now I've just noticed that the 'title bar' of 'Files' (nautilus) works as long as the window has focus, and the launcher responds to Super+#.) (By the way, I have just noticed that two-finger scrolling works even without focus (my 'mouse' is really a touchpad), but clicking on the scrollbar doesn't. (So to turn the computer off using the GUI, I first have to log out with Ctrl-Alt-Del, and then am able to select Power Off from the greeter.) Also, hover actions work correctly (except on the desktop and title bars) it is just clicks that don't work. Locking the screen does not help however, logging out does.

While I can switch between windows with Alt-Tab, the desktop itself (including the launcher) is completely unresponsive. Furthermore the title bar of even the focused window doesn't recognize the mouse, so I can't, for example, move or close the window by clicking on the title bar. I am encountering a problem wherein, after using Ubuntu 20.04 for awhile, non-focused windows stop responding to mouse clicks (and thus do not gain focus).