gnome-shell-extension-fullscreen-notifications
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Notifications eat keyboard input
I've had a devil of a time catching this one on video because getting messages isn't the sort of thing I can plan for.
- Generally affects full screen applications (the reason to have this extension), though I think outside fullscreen if my mouse happens to be in the same location as the notification that eats inputs too (had this happen once).
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Appears that applications that expect keys to be pressed continuously (eg.
[W][A][S][D]
) can get that press interrupted (assume a key-up when losing focus, regaining focus, no key-down). Likely depends on the specific game engine (Unity makes no assumptions and key-ups can get eaten; alt-tab is a notorious example). - Notifications that eat inputs are dismissed instantly if the key represents a printing character (eg
[W]
but not[left arrow]
) resulting in no time to read the notification
Looks like a bug in Gnome just that the way in which the notification is being brought to the front above full screen applications is activating the same buggy codepath (eg. the Ctrl-M step in the bug report isn't needed as that's effectively what this extension is doing automatically).
If you're able to bypass the Gnome bug in the extension while it remains unfixed, that'd be awesome.