[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#865633: Bug#865633: can't drag windows or click "Activities" in GNOME 3 guest

[Guido Günther]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 01:20:02PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> Package: virt-viewer
> Version: 5.0-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> 
> I recently updated a Debian system, here are the new and old versions of
> each package from dpkg.log
> 
> upgrade virt-viewer:amd64 1.0-1 5.0-1
> upgrade virt-manager:all 1:1.0.1-5 1:1.4.0-5
> upgrade spice-client-gtk:amd64 0.25-1+b1 0.33-3.3
> upgrade libspice-client-glib-2.0-8:amd64 0.25-1+b1 0.33-3.3
> upgrade libspice-server1:amd64 0.12.5-1+deb8u4 0.12.8-2.1
> 
> 
> I connected to an existing session where GNOME 3 is running in a guest
> and I found that I can't drag and drop the windows any more and I can't
> click the "Activities" control.  Clicking other things on the top-bar
> (e.g. the clock) behaves normally.
> 
> I am connecting over ssh
> 
> Is this a known problem?
> 
> I had another system running stretch since about 6 months ago.  It was
> actually working fine on that system last time I checked (about a month
> ago).  That system was fully upgraded yesterday and I notice today it
> has the same bug too.
> 
> I also tried the spicy client instead of virt-viewer, it has the bug too.

If spicy has the same issue I'd start looking in
libspice-client-{gtk,glib}. The virt-* end did not change since quite
some time.
 -- Guido