GNU bug report logs - #66765
30.0.50; Building emacs with xinput2 breaks receiving XSendEvent events

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ami Fischman <ami <at> fischman.org>

Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 17:51:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Found in version 30.0.50

Done: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #24 received at 66765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: ami <at> fischman.org, 66765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#66765: 30.0.50; Building emacs with xinput2 breaks
 receiving XSendEvent events
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:38:11 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> The OP talked specifically about ratpoison.

ratpoison doesn't send events to Emacs itself.  The OP has configured it
to call "xse", which is a command-line wrapper around the proscribed
SendEvent request.  It is easily replaced with "xdotool" or suchlike.

> There may be other programs that use this method.  I'm asking whether
> we know which ones do that, not whether it's correct or recommended.

Oh, I don't.
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