stephan-dev
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2 years ago I don't have this issue, just a related small annoyance : often when I want to resize a window (Firefox, Image, etc), I use the mouse. I go just outside the window until the mouse pointer becomes an arrow. I click and drag to resize the window. But if the pointer was just above a desklet, I don't get what I wanted, but the desklet is moved. If I press "Esc", then an empty blue frame of the size of the desklet appears where the mouse pointer was when I aborted the moving. I learnt to avoid the "Esc" workaround, because the blue empty frame remains (in addition to the desklet), I have to restart cinnamon to get rid of it. So when it happens, I carefully move the mouse pointer to where the desklet was, and I drop it exactly at the place it was. To avoid having the problem a second time, I resize the window I wanted to resize from another border, so that the pointer that becomes an arrow isn't above a desklet. Cinnamon 4.0.10
Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon - Uma Cinnamon version 5.0.5 Linux Kernel: 5.4.0-84-generic 64 bit
When I am on Firefox (92.0, 64-bit) and once when I was using Inkscape 1.1, sometimes while I am clicking, the click will 'go through' the active window and interact with the desklets behind it (this has happened with all of the desklets I use: the thermometer, picture frame, and the battery level indicator). When this happens, the desklet suddenly appears over the active page attached to the cursor, so I'm basically moving it around (this happens with and without grid snapping enabled). If I click a second time, the cursor 'drops' the desklet in whatever location my cursor is now in. During this whole process, whatever window I was on seems to remain active.
I can't really provide any proper instructions to reproduce this issue because it doesn't happen every time I click whatever window I am on while a desklet is behind it. As far as I can tell, it just happens randomly, though it is frequent enough though that it is more than just an annoyance and is legitimately problematic for my daily computer use. I can provide a suggestion for the purpose of reproducing it, because it only happens when the you click where the desklet is behind the window, using a small desklet could take a while to get any results. The photo frame's configuration lets you set the size of the frame; I figure you set the frame's size so that it covers half your desktop, if you just go about your usual business, you'll be much more likely to encounter this issue at some point (I tested this out and it seems to work: when the desklet is hard to miss, it happens a lot more frequently).