Bug#1004946: Cannot hold down backspace to delete password

2022-02-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Control: forwarded 1004946 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxi/-/issues/13 On Sun 2022-02-13 08:26:24 -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote: >> Why did you switch to it? Or am I misunderstanding that you did? > > For the new security model. No other way to increase the privilege separation.

Bug#1004946: Cannot hold down backspace to delete password

2022-02-13 Thread Jamie Zawinski
> Why did you switch to it? Or am I misunderstanding that you did? For the new security model. No other way to increase the privilege separation. -- Jamie Zawinski https://www.jwz.org/ https://www.dnalounge.com/

Bug#1004946: Cannot hold down backspace to delete password

2022-02-13 Thread martin f krafft
Regarding the following, written by "Jamie Zawinski" on 2022-02-12 at 09:55 Uhr -0800: Also this is far from the only problem with XInput2's keyboard event handling. See the comments in xscreensaver/driver/xinput.c for a laundry list of its bugs. Why did you switch to it? Or am I

Bug#1004946: Cannot hold down backspace to delete password

2022-02-12 Thread Jamie Zawinski
When an X11 client reads X11-core events of type KeyPress and KeyRelease, a held-down key will result in a series of synthetic release/press events to make it look like the key was pressed multiple times. The initial delay and repeat rate are configured in the X server by xset and/or xkbset.

Bug#1004946: Cannot hold down backspace to delete password

2022-02-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri 2022-02-11 09:16:09 -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote: > On Feb 11, 2022, at 8:51 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor 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

Bug#1004946: Cannot hold down backspace to delete password

2022-02-11 Thread Jamie Zawinski
On Feb 11, 2022, at 8:51 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor 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

Bug#1004946: Cannot hold down backspace to delete password

2022-02-11 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Control: reopen 1004946 Control: reassign 1004946 libxi6 2:1.8-1 Control: affects 1004946 + xscreensaver On Fri 2022-02-04 07:29:55 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Package: xscreensaver > Version: 6.02+dfsg1-2 > Severity: normal > > If I know I mistyped the password, I am used to holding down >

Bug#1004946: Cannot hold down backspace to delete password

2022-02-03 Thread Jamie Zawinski
For some reason, the XInput2 extension doesn't auto-repeat certain keys that used to auto-repeat when read the "old" way. Unfortunately there's nothing I can do about this. I process only the keystrokes that I receive. However you can use the traditional keystrokes ^U and ^X to clear the whole

Bug#1004946: Cannot hold down backspace to delete password

2022-02-03 Thread martin f krafft
Package: xscreensaver Version: 6.02+dfsg1-2 Severity: normal If I know I mistyped the password, I am used to holding down backspace to erase all characters, effectively making use of the key repeat. This stopped working with version 6, and now holding down the key only ever removes a single