Subject: Re: bug#66765: 30.0.50; Building emacs with xinput2 breaks receiving XSendEvent events

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2023 10:28:44 +0200

> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 09:04:00 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> 
> > Cc: [email-masked]
> > Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 08:32:44 +0800
> > From:  Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> >  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > When the X input extension is in use, both Emacs and the X server ignore
> > core events.  It's also impossible to send extension events, so this
> > extension renders external event delivery effectively impossible.
> > 
> > This isn't a bug we can fix, sorry; but the XTEST extension is capable
> > of simulating real key presses, so I suggest whatever tools send Emacs
> > events be rewritten to make use of that extension.
> > 
> > The same issue can be observed in programs written to use version 3 or 4
> > of the GTK toolkit.
> 
> Can you please add something to etc/PROBLEMS about this issue?

Ping!  I'd really love to have something in v29.2's PROBLEMS about
this.

Thanks.