[Bug 48462] "Listen to RawKey* events in the desktop thread" patch makes keyboard unreliable in EverQuest

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48462

--- Comment #5 from Dominique Martinet <dvufhr.nznqarjf at noclue.notk.org> ---
> However this is not always reflected on the X11 side, where another window may have the input focus.

And it's not possible to have a better synchro between the windows state and
the x11 state ?
FWIW, in wayland, you cannot get events for the root window anymore (only the
really focused wayland window gets events) -- that looks much saner to me.

> virtual desktop as a workaround

That is a good point, I might get better input with that for my other problems
too, I'll give it a spin. But I don't think it's enough to just fix virtual
desktop, you will probably have many other games behaving the same way I think?

> no events processed for a long time

Now while that might be very true for games like EQ (during heavy lag period I
can easily have something like 10s delay between what I finished typing and the
moment it's done processing), I don't think it was the case when I had problems
with what I typed in firefox being sent to the game as well.
In the occurrences I had the game was idle in a relatively lag-free safe area
so there shouldn't have been even a second of lag there, and text I was typing
minutes after switching workspace was still sent.

There might be a problem with how wmii notifies x11 clients of workspace switch
(just tested with xev: I see proper FocusIn/FocusOut events if focused and
UnmapNotify/MapNotify events even if not focused so it looks proper to me)...
But anyway, I still don't find natural that games have to process root window
key events. Call me paranoid but I don't particularily trust windows programs I
haven't seen the source of, so the less it can see of what I don't type with it
explicitely focused the better (think keyloggers or similar)

Thanks,
-- 
Dominique

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