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Bumping priority, it's concerning all scenarios.

bertagaz wrote:

It does open the Gnome applications menu though, as shown by the screenshot.

And that's precisely why the Overview does not open: the SUPER key is ignored when the Applications menu is open.

Maybe the SUPER key press is lost, or we have to bump a bit the waiting time for the Gnome activities overview panel to be displayed?

… so I believe neither of these will work.

Last time we had a similar issue (#11401), it was caused by one of our hacks that clicked in the wrong place and opened the Applications menu as a result. I suspect it's the same here. Can you please attach the debug log and video?

I've noticed another source of fragility here: sometimes the Overview opens just fine, we type our query (in my case, "Disks") but there's no search results. Looking at the Journal, I notice that starting to type a search query in the Overview triggers the startup of a number of DBus services (org.gnome.ControlCenter.SearchProvider, org.gnome.Nautilus, org.gnome.Calculator.SearchProvider, org.gnome.seahorse.Application). It looks like there's a bug in GNOME Shell here.

Can you please attach the debug log and video?

One year later, I'm giving up.

Applied in changeset a1d045bd167e47d620d6c2b22259bf6a946e9a21.

The recent failures here look like this:

03:46:37.768579404: executing Python as amnesia: node534 = node533.child('No Notifications', roleName='label')
03:46:41.843246621: execution complete
03:46:41.843435077: executing Python as amnesia: node535 = node533.child('No Notifications', roleName='label')
03:46:45.525478217: execution complete
03:46:45.568328359: [log]  TYPE "#ESC." 
    And all notifications have disappeared                                                                                              # features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:441
03:46:45.570811783: Sikuli: calling wait("GnomeApplicationsMenu.png")...
03:46:45.628754688: Remote shell: calling as amnesia: xdotool key Super
03:46:46.126956051: call returned: [0, "", ""]
03:46:46.127133834: Sikuli: calling wait("GnomeActivitiesOverview.png")...
03:47:12.730567115: Failed to find fuzzy candidate picture for GnomeActivitiesOverview.png
03:47:12.730779237: FindFailedHookFailure was raised, re-running the failing Sikuli method.
    When I delete the persistent partition                                                                                              # features/step_definitions/usb.rb:690
      FindFailed: can not find GnomeActivitiesOverview.png in S(0)[0,0 1024x768]
        Line 2171, in file Region.java
       (RuntimeError)

The video shows that we've successfully cleared all notifications but the Overview does not open.
We've pressed SUPER only 60ms after we've pressed ESC, which I think was too early: when the notifications menu is open, pressing SUPER does not open the Overview. I'll add a sleep somewhere as a workaround.

Applied in changeset tails|e889519458da6235b299e4077a03d88a4fbdea7e.