Drag and Drop with pressed Ctrl regression

Alexander Zvegintsev alexander.zvegintsev at oracle.com
Thu Aug 28 14:28:32 UTC 2025


FYI: filed as https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/4288

Thanks,
Alexander.

On 8/18/25 21:31, Alexander Zvegintsev wrote:
>
> Hello, Jonas, Olivier,
>
> During the last meeting I mentioned about a regression in the drag and 
> drop behavior in XWayland.
>
>
> The problem is that the COPY action no longer reliably works most of 
> the time when the Ctrl key is pressed.
>
> I still do not have a native reproducer; however, a Java one can be 
> found here 
> <https://gist.github.com/azvegint/d0c71bdd390728799d793c8c271ba48d>.
>
> Try dragging and dropping the yellow button onto the red panel while 
> holding Ctrl.
>
> It fails most of the time, but sometimes it can be copied to the red 
> panel (try performing several drag-and-drop actions quickly).
>
> This JDK issue was reported back in October 2024 
> <https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8341296> against Ubuntu 24.10 
> (Gnome 47).
>  At that time, it was not reproducible on Ubuntu 24.04 (Gnome 46).
>
> Now, however, it does reproduce on Ubuntu 24.04, suggesting that some 
> DnD-related changes were backported to it.
>
>
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Alexander.
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