Mouse clicks stop working after attempting a screenshot in Chrome

Question

This happens after trying to take a cropped screenshot (Shift + Print) when a drop-down element (<select>) is open in Chrome. Can be reproduced in this site - click on the "Choose a car" select, then hit Shift + Print.

Mouse still works and moving it affects windows' focus.

I tried various solutions / checks from existing answers:

Reloading the psmouse module
xev shows no input events for clicks
evtest shows events for clicks
Switching to another TTY, then back (as suggested here)

The issue remains. Restarting gdm3 helped, but at the cost of restarting my session, so it's equivalent to a restart... (which helps as well, obviously)

Specs:

Dell XPS 7590 15"
GNOME Shell 3.36.3-1ubuntu1~20.04.2
Google Chrome 83.0.4103.116
xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.8-2ubuntu2.1

I noticed that resetting Gnome with Alt + F2 -> R -> Enter helps. — Jong, Sep 07 '20 at 22:39
Killing gnome-shell helped me. Described here: https://askubuntu.com/a/1298813/312150 — obezyan, Mar 02 '21 at 09:34
Just to add to @Jong comment: Alt + F2 -> r -> Enter, so r shouldbe lowercase. Otherwise thanks a lot for your comment :) — Jure Sencar, Sep 03 '21 at 08:25

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 19 '22 at 09:11

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gnome-shell reset works!

Alt + F2 -> r -> Enter

You may try to hotkey: dbus-send --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=org.gnome.Shell /org/gnome/Shell org.gnome.Shell.Eval string:'global.reexec_self()'

answered May 19 '22 at 09:11

Alexander Varchenko

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Thanks, I always have this issue, and have always had to restart my PC! This works. – Dan Abrey Jul 05 '22 at 08:33

Mouse clicks stop working after attempting a screenshot in Chrome

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