On Fri 2022-02-11 09:16:09 -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote: > On Feb 11, 2022, at 8:51 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@debian.org> wrote: >> >> If the regression is caused by changes in how XInput/XInput2 behave, >> then maybe this problem should be addressed in that package. I'm >> reassigning this report there and marking that it affects xscreensaver. > > I have no reason to believe that XInput2 has not always behaved that way. You > are noticing it now because XScreenSaver only began using XInput2 as of 6.x. > > Stating the problem/annoyance more concisely: > > XInput2 does not send auto-repeat press/release events in the same manner as > XNextEvent.
Thanks for the prompt feedback, Jamie!
If you're saying that XInput2 *cannot* send auto-repeat press/release
events, and no tool that uses XInput2 can handle auto-repeating keys,
that seems like a problem with XInput2 -- hence the transfer of the bug.
If you're saying that XScreenSaver is not interpreting the signal of a
held-down backspace key, then it seems like a bug in XScreenSaver to me.
If neither of those is the case, then i'm not understanding the
conversation on this bug report, only observing that the problem for
users still remains.
Regards,
--dkg
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