Hello,
I am facing an issue with windows switch screen. Not sure whether this is the correct term or not, but here’s that screen:
Whenever I press the Windows button, these type of windows open. Until last week, i never faced any issues with it.
But now I cannot get out of this mode, almost 8 out of 10 times. My cursor still remains working,and I can close applications or click on the screen. But I cannot go inside any particular application. Even if I close all applications, I get an empty screen with the wallpaper, and can do nothing.
I found a thread saying it’s a known bug and Esc will solve the issue, but it doesn’t seem to work for me.
System Information:
System:
Kernel: 5.10.34-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
root=UUID=1970e90a-17a2-4823-a83c-78022d22ae51 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: GNOME 3.38.4 tk: GTK 3.24.29 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 40.0
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Portable System: Dell product: Inspiron 3543 v: A13 serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 8 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 04XW3R v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: A13
date: 09/02/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 4.8 Wh (33.8%) condition: 14.2/41.4 Wh (34.3%)
volts: 16.3 min: 14.8 model: SMP-SDI2.8 DELL FW1MN31 type: Unknown
serial: <filter> status: Charging
Memory:
RAM: total: 7.69 GiB used: 2.31 GiB (30.1%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-5200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Broadwell family: 6 model-id: 3D (61) stepping: 4 microcode: 2F cache:
L2: 3 MiB bogomips: 17557
Speed: 906 MHz min/max: 500/2700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 906 2: 853 3: 890
4: 920
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx
avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de
ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d
fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single
lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx
pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36
pti pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2
sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust
tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1616 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT
620M/625M/630M/720M]
vendor: Dell driver: N/A alternate: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1140 class-ID: 0302
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.11 compositor: gnome-shell driver:
loaded: modesetting unloaded: intel alternate: fbdev,vesa
resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:160c class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:9ca0
class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.34-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.26 running: no
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n
vendor: Dell Wireless 1704 802.11n + BT 4.0 driver: wl v: kernel
modules: bcma port: 5040 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4365 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp6s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Dell
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 4000 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp7s0 state: down mac: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM43142 Bluetooth 4.0 type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-1.6:7 chip-ID: 0a5c:21d7 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 54.98 GiB (5.9%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HTS541010A9E680
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: A750 scheme: GPT
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: DVD+-RW GU90N rev: A1B0
dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 116.42 GiB size: 114.09 GiB (98.00%)
used: 16.93 GiB (14.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 label: N/A
uuid: 1970e90a-17a2-4823-a83c-78022d22ae51
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%)
used: 25.3 MiB (26.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A
uuid: 5289-4D21
ID-3: /mnt/common raw-size: 465.85 GiB size: 465.85 GiB (100.00%)
used: 30.37 GiB (6.5%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sda7 maj-min: 8:7
label: CommonStorage uuid: 6D3BCE480E618A66
ID-4: /mnt/main raw-size: 232.83 GiB size: 232.83 GiB (100.00%)
used: 7.66 GiB (3.3%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
label: MainStorage uuid: DCE62DE9E62DC49C
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-2: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 115.81 GiB fs: ntfs label: Windows
uuid: 32B68F0BB68ECEB3
ID-3: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 size: 505 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
uuid: D2461D85461D6B8B
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip-ID: 8087:8001 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-1.6:7 info: Broadcom BCM43142 Bluetooth 4.0 type: Bluetooth
driver: btusb interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 0a5c:21d7
class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 1-1.8:8 info: Realtek RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
type: <vendor specific> driver: rtsx_usb,rtsx_usb_ms,rtsx_usb_sdmmc
interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:0129
class-ID: ff00 serial: <filter>
Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 11 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: 53.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info:
Processes: 212 Uptime: 27m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 247 tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 1448 lib: 405 flatpak: 0 Shell: Zsh
v: 5.8 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.04
Please let me know what I can do to fix this issue.
Thanks
