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Mouse gets stuck selecting a region on the desktop and no other meaningful input allowed #3713

Description

@pneuma163
 * Cinnamon version 5.0.6
 * Distribution - Mint 20.2
 * Graphics hardware *and* driver used - pasting in all the graphics info from inxi -Fxxxrz
 * Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT] 
  vendor: XFX Pine driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 28:00.0 
  chip ID: 1002:731f 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: amdgpu,ati 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 5700 (NAVI10 DRM 3.35.0 5.4.0-89-generic 
  LLVM 12.0.0) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3 direct render: Yes
 * 64 bit
 * Attached: /var/log/syslog (but renamed to syslog.txt so it will upload)

Issue

Unable to click the mouse or meaningfully type with the keyboard after doing as described in the next section:

Steps to reproduce

Click on the desktop. Type any letter to bring up the desktop search above the clock.
Right click in the desktop search text box and select "Insert emoji"
Click on the desktop.
Move the mouse.
The mouse is now selecting a region on the desktop as one would by clicking and holding and dragging around except that now no meaningful input works. I can resolve this by logging out of the session using ctrl-alt-backspace and then logging back in.

Expected behaviour

Not that.

Other information

The attached syslog file is short because this is incredibly easy to reproduce so I just did it right after midnight local.

[quick edit for typo]

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syslog.txt
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