[SOLVED] Weird bug(?) with desktop GUI and unable to focus on dialog boxes

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Hello,
I’m having a problem that I can’t quite figure out how to solve and wondered if anyone can help or shed light on this one. I’m running the latest version of Bookworm.

As an example, I installed some chess apps via Synaptic, including XBoard and scid. If I run scid, the main window opens with a ‘tip of the day’ dialog in front of it. However, I cannot click on any of the gui items in the dialog except those on the title bar (minimise, maximise and close). If I click anywhere else in that dialog window, the focus is not given to it and buttons and editable areas simply don’t respond to mouse clicks.

If I close this dialog and open something like Tools/Analysis Engine, I get a new dialog box where the title bar works, but the buttons in the window don’t. However, if I minimise the main scid window, I can get this (and other) dialog box to work! It’s like the mouse cannot get the contents of dialog boxes to focus unless I minimise the main app window, and even then it doesn’t always work.

I’m only giving these as examples, but there are others too. Some apps that open dialog boxes rather than a docked sub-window seem to suffer with this issue. It’s driving me potty and I don’t know what to do with it.

Any ideas anyone please?

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google by ‘application_name + wayland’

or try to switch to X11, wayland is funny sometimes.

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Thanks, I’ll give X11 a try. This is the first distro I have ever used with Wayland, so hadn’t considered it being a possible reason for the issue.

EDIT: That worked :grin: I just had to go into the screen config and rotate DSI-2 to the right after a reboot.

EDIT2: The whole GUI is much more responsive since switching. I found Wayland a bit laggy, even on CM5.

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wayland is still not “production ready”, but it mostly works smooth for me.

also it may happen because of some X11 session variable wasn’t set, but required by app. or app written in java.

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Wayland seems ok for the most part, it just has moments of serious lag and brief freezes sometimes. Not enough to be a problem, but the difference with X11 is noticeable.

I suspect it’s the apps I’m using that are the issue. Wayland only displayed this dialog box problem with some applications and not others. Ironic that it’s the ones I really want to use that were the worst culprits :upside_down_face:

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