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. Than

Processed: Re: Bug#1004946: Cannot hold down backspace to delete password

2022-02-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > forwarded 1004946 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxi/-/issues/13 Bug #1004946 [libxi6] Cannot hold down backspace to delete password Set Bug forwarded-to-address to 'https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxi/-/issues/13'. -- 1004946: https://bugs.de

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 misunderstan

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. Als

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 ma

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 belie

Processed: Re: Bug#1004946: Cannot hold down backspace to delete password

2022-02-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > reopen 1004946 Bug #1004946 {Done: martin f krafft } [xscreensaver] Cannot hold down backspace to delete password Bug reopened Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #1004946 to the same values previously set > reassign 1004946 libxi6 2:1.8-1 Bug #1004946