[Bug]: Left click becomes right-click; sidebar threads unclickable until Ctrl+Escape

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• I searched existing issues and did not find a duplicate.
• I included enough detail to reproduce or investigate the problem.

Area

apps/desktop

Steps to reproduce

I do not have a deterministic first trigger. It happens often during normal use of the desktop app, especially around the left sidebar (projects / threads). After it starts, every left click behaves like a right click.

Related tickets I found (same menu, different symptom, all closed): #2053, #2535, #285, #3698. Those describe a misplaced menu or an item firing on open. This report is the stuck state that follows: left click stays in right-click mode and the thread list stops accepting selection.

Expected behavior

A left click selects the thread or UI control under the cursor. A right click opens the context menu. After the menu closes, left click works again.

Actual behavior

Left click starts opening context menus (or otherwise acting as a right click). Threads in the left sidebar cannot be selected. Escape or clicking around sometimes clears it. Closing T3 Code often does not. Ctrl+Escape consistently restores normal left-click behavior.

That looks like a leftover context-menu listener or compositor pointer grab. Ctrl+Escape may just force a focus change that drops the grab; I am not claiming it is an intentional T3 shortcut.

Impact

Major degradation or frequent failure

Version or commit

v0.0.40 (Linux AppImage T3-Code-0.0.40-x86_64.AppImage)

Environment

Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS, COSMIC desktop, Wayland, T3 Code desktop AppImage v0.0.40

Workaround

Ctrl+Escape resets the stuck state and left click works again. Escape alone or clicking around only helps sometimes. Restarting the app is unreliable.

Created with AI · Commissioned by Karsten.

Start in apps/desktop by reproducing the stuck left-click state around the sidebar projects and threads, then inspect the context-menu and focus behavior associated with Ctrl+Escape. Compare left- and right-click handling after the menu closes. Done means left click reliably selects threads and controls again, while right click still opens the context menu.