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[Jason Hobbs <jason.hobbs@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've had exactly the same problem and figured out how to reproduce it.

1) Open gnome-terminal
2) Hold shift (either left or right) and left click on the menubar
3) Mouse clicks and movement are now ignored by all apps

I've got it to go away too - but I'm not sure how I did that yet.

This is a big bummer for me as I end up having to kill several tabs with
of terminals a few times a day.

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Title:
  gnome-terminal occasionally grabs mouse input

Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Since I updated to 11.10 last Friday gnome-terminal has been grabbing my mouse input every few days.
  First I noticed that my mouse clicks and movement stopped being noticed by all apps, and the people in #ubuntu-x told me that it was likely a client had grabbed the mouse, so I killed my running processes one by one, until killing gnome-terminal solved it.
  Today it happened again, my first measure was killing gnome-terminal, and that solved it, confirming gnome-terminal is the culprit.
  I have not yet noticed any pattern in what triggers the problem, and I'm not sure on how I should act to find it out.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gnome-terminal 3.0.1-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic-pae 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Oct 20 11:44:29 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (5 days ago)

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