Mint: frozen dialog box that i cannot close

[HamHamT]

sometimes when i am doing something that involves a dialog box, it will freeze and make it unable to close even if i end the corresponding application. i have found no other fix other than to force reboot, causing me to lose any data that I have.

attatched is a picture displaying the bug, the box in the middle unable to be closing even by using xkill.

floatingdialogbox_bug.png.jpeg

i have possibly found a fix at the following url, but i cannot make any sense of it.

https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/340

could someone help me? i am running cinnamon and linux mint olivia.

[QIII]

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