Bug 194602

Summary:	media-video/xine-ui-0.99.5 generates keypresses, interfering with normal system use
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) <loki_val>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Media-video project <media-video>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	xine-ui-fake-key.patch xine-ui-0.99.5.patch

Description Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-10-03 12:50:16 UTC

I discovered that while playing, xine-ui generates keypresses of shift_l and control_l in order to stop screensavers and DPMS from starting. That's not acceptable to me when I simultaneously am (for instance) browsing the web with Konqueror and the keyboard navigation keys start popping up every 10 seconds.

This should definitely be configurable behavior, but isn't. Therefore I have patched it out of my copy of xine-ui. Feel free to use the patch if it seems useful.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-10-03 12:53:29 UTC

Created attachment 132456 [details, diff]
xine-ui-fake-key.patch

This patch just rips out the code responsible. It's already been placed in an ifdef that depends on the Xtest extension being available, it's the only place that ifdef is used so I think I can say it's 100% safe.

Comment 2 Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-10-03 13:08:18 UTC

Created attachment 132459 [details, diff]
xine-ui-0.99.5.patch

patch for xine-ui-0.99.5.ebuild

Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-10-03 18:49:43 UTC

This is not a Gentoo bug. Have you submitted this upstream?

Comment 4 Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-10-03 19:28:44 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> This is not a Gentoo bug. Have you submitted this upstream?

No. This looks like intended behavior.

Comment 5 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-12-29 21:54:29 UTC

Indeed it's intended behaviour so it won't be patched out on gentoo. Please file a feature request for xine-ui at http://bugs.xine-project.org/ for an option to disable this behaviour if you care.