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Graphical console greeter for greetd
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Backlight hotkeys produce typed characters #128

Closed LRitzdorf closed 7 months ago

LRitzdorf commented 7 months ago

On my (Arch) system, pressing a backlight hotkey causes a character to be typed into the active tuigreet text field. This character renders as a blank space when entered into a field where it's actually visible (i.e. not the password field). I don't observe this effect when using a TTY normally (i.e. when logged into a shell), so I'm guessing this is somehow related to tuigreet in particular?

For reference, my backlight hotkeys are set up via acpid, so that they function even when not in a graphical environment. I'm not sure whether/how this might affect keypresses being eaten or passed down to TTY processes, unfortunately, but would be willing to test any settings that might be relevant!

LRitzdorf commented 7 months ago

...okay, after a quick test, the ACPI settings have no effect. The character is typed both with and without acpid's handling of backlight events.

apognu commented 7 months ago

What version of tuigreet are you using?

LRitzdorf commented 7 months ago

Hm — 0.7.3 according to tuigreet -v, but the Arch package is currently numbered 0.8.0. That's interesting...

apognu commented 7 months ago

Yes this was an issue on my part with numbering from within the app, you are running 0.8.0.

I do believe that the issue you mention was fixed since, but was not yet released as a stable package, but I would like to make sure. Are you able/willing to build/install the binary from the HEAD of the repo to confirm? If you still have the issue there, I would like to be able to reproduce it.

Hopefully, if everything goes right, 0.9.0 should come within the next few weeks.

LRitzdorf commented 7 months ago

Sure! I'm guessing I can just build AUR's greetd-tuigreet-git? If so, I'll try that later today.

LRitzdorf commented 7 months ago

Yep, confirmed that the current Git build fixes this issue. Thanks for the tip!