Lion: Weird behavior with two monitors.

Intermittently, though very often, when a window is open in the secondary monitor (without menu bar), I cannot select items within the window — files (finder), emails (mail) or songs (iTunes). I cannot clear the problem except by moving the window to the primary monitor or to another desktop.Then, everything is fine. The this behavior is isolated to the secondary monitor. Putting applications on separate desktops seems to avoid the problem.
Here's the behavior in some detail. Clicking on the window header selects the window, but if I click inside it seems to deselect the window rather than select the item; the window appearance changes to the deselected appearance. Clicking on the header reselects the window; it can be moved, but it may not be possible to resize it and contents cannot be selected. Sometimes this happens in only part of the window. I can't select anything below half way down the window, or on the left side. In this mode, in list view, I can select an item in a list layout by clicking on the right side of the name entry line, but not on the icon. It is as if an invisible window is sitting in front. This is intermittent, soI am trying to figure out how precisely to reproduce it. It sometimes happens not while I am working but after ten minutes or so of non-use.
Any ideas?

I don't, since my code has to be generic (it's the same for both canvases, and many more).
And I can only get the name of a canvas from a block, not the name of a block from a canvas.
That's why the cursor-block was the best solution.

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