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Drag-to-tile stops working after suspend; keyboard shortcuts keep working
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Description
Describe the bug
After resuming from suspend, dragging a window to a screen edge or corner no
longer triggers tiling. The preview never appears and the window simply stays
where it is dropped.
Keyboard shortcuts (<Super>Left / <Super>Right) continue to work normally,
so the extension is still running and still handling input — only the
drag/pointer path is dead.
Disabling and re-enabling the extension does not fix it. Logging out and
back in does.
Steps to reproduce
- Boot, log in, confirm drag-to-tile works.
- Close the lid (suspend) or lock the screen, then resume.
- Drag a window to a screen edge.
Expected behaviour
Drag-to-tile works after resume, as it does after a fresh login.
Actual behaviour
No preview, no tiling. Keyboard shortcuts unaffected.
Diagnostics
The extension itself reports as healthy after resume:
$ gnome-extensions info tiling-assistant@ubuntu.com
Version: 54
Enabled: Yes
State: ACTIVE
org.gnome.mutter edge-tiling is false, which is expected — the extension
overrides it and records the original in overridden-settings:
$ gsettings get org.gnome.shell.extensions.tiling-assistant overridden-settings
{'org.gnome.mutter.edge-tiling': <@mb nothing>,
'org.gnome.mutter.keybindings.toggle-tiled-left': <@mb nothing>,
'org.gnome.mutter.keybindings.toggle-tiled-right': <@mb nothing>}
Key data point: with the extension still enabled and in this broken state,
setting org.gnome.mutter edge-tiling true restores Mutter's own drag-to-tile
immediately, and it works correctly. So pointer tracking and drag handling in
Mutter are fine after resume — the failure is confined to the extension's own
drag path.
dconf watch /org/gnome/mutter/ during a lock/unlock cycle shows the expected
override being removed and reapplied (unset → false), i.e. the extension is
correctly re-initialising its settings. It is only the drag behaviour that does
not come back.
The journal contains one possibly related error:
JS ERROR: TypeError: can't access property "get_transition", this.actor is null
System information
- Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (clean install)
- Wayland session (26.04 is Wayland-only)
- GNOME Shell 50.1
- Extension: Ubuntu Tiling Assistant (
tiling-assistant@ubuntu.com) version 54,
bundled, no separate deb package - Hardware: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 11 (convertible, touchscreen + pen),
Intel Core Ultra 7 355, kernel 7.0.0-31-generic - Single internal display, 1920x1200, scaling 100%
- Input: touchpad (also reproducible with TrackPoint)
suspend-then-hibernateconfigured; reproducible after plain suspend as well
Possibly related
The convertible aspect may matter: this machine reports SW_TABLET_MODE and has
a working accelerometer, so the shell handles device-mode transitions that a
regular laptop does not. I have not yet isolated whether the trigger is suspend
itself or a tablet-mode transition around it — happy to test that if useful.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No source file, test, or entry point is named in the report. Start by tracing the extension's drag/pointer lifecycle across suspend, resume, lock, and tablet-mode transitions, then inspect the journal error about a null actor. Done means the drag preview and tiling return after resume while keyboard shortcuts continue working.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, linux
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100