Tranparent-panels prevents access to desktop after unlocking screen

[EarlPomeroy]

Extension version/Build date

Version 4.0~20220727 (2024-06-24 20:47:29)

Cinnamon version

6.0.4

Distribution

21.3

Graphics hardware and driver used

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 535.183.01

Extension name and maintainer

transparent-panels@germanfr @germanfr

What happened?

The problem started with a fresh install of Linux Mint 21.3. Before this, the extension was working fine, but the machine had been upgraded from previous versions of LM. When the computer is locked or becomes locked after inactivity, unlocking the machine results in a blank screen with an active cursor. CTRL + ALT + ESC will restore the desktop, which has side effects. The most notable is that external encrypted hard drives don't always mount due to keyring issues. The other more worrying problem is the .xsession-errors file grows to 10s or 100s of GBs depending on the length of time left locked. The log is filled with the lines

(cinnamon:25200): Gjs-CRITICAL **: 20:10:09.855: Attempting to run a JS callback during garbage collection. This is most likely caused by destroying a Clutter actor or GTK widget with ::destroy signal connected, or using the destroy(), dispose(), or remove() vfuncs. Because it would crash the application, it has been blocked.

(cinnamon:25200): Gjs-CRITICAL **: 20:10:09.855: The offending callback was SourceFunc().
== Stack trace for context 0x5953573c1280 ==

(cinnamon:25200): Gjs-CRITICAL **: 20:10:09.855: Attempting to run a JS callback during garbage collection. This is most likely caused by destroying a Clutter actor or GTK widget with ::destroy signal connected, or using the destroy(), dispose(), or remove() vfuncs. Because it would crash the application, it has been blocked.

(cinnamon:25200): Gjs-CRITICAL **: 20:10:09.855: The offending callback was SourceFunc().
== Stack trace for context 0x5953573c1280 ==

repeated at dozens of entries per millisecond.

Disabling or removing the extension prevents this problem.

Other information

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