Mir On X (mesa-x11) keeps receiving mouse movement events even when not focused

[Daniel van Vugt]

Mir On X (mesa-x11) keeps receiving mouse movement events even when not focused.

Move the mouse outside the Mir On X window and the internal cursor keeps moving. Even click outside the window and the Mir cursor in the window keeps moving.

Confirmed this happens in Mir 0.17.1 and still in Mir 0.20.0 too so it's not a new problem with the new input stack.

This is the log output when running sudo ./bin/mir_demo_server from a x11 terminal:

[2016-02-17 08:42:39.905329] mirserver: Selected input driver: mir:x11-input (version: 0.20.0)
[2016-02-17 08:42:39.938897] mirserver: Selected input driver: mir:evdev-input (version: 0.20.0)

But to get to that situation probing of both platforms must succeed. That should only happen when you run a mir server as root within an x11 terminal without specifying a vt.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thanks for figuring that out. I prefer the title of the bug to be in terms of what the user sees though, and not a description of the root cause.

[Mir CI Bot (mir-ci-bot)]

Fix committed into lp:mir at revision None, scheduled for release in mir, milestone 0.21.0

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mir - 0.21.0+16.04.20160330-0ubuntu1

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mir (0.21.0+16.04.20160330-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Alberto Aguirre ]
  * New upstream release 0.21.0 (https://launchpad.net/mir/+milestone/0.21.0)
    - ABI summary:
      . mirclient ABI unchanged at 9
      . mirserver ABI unchanged at 38
      . mircommon ABI unchanged at 5
      . mirplatform ABI unchanged at 11
      . mirprotobuf ABI unchanged at 3
      . mirplatformgraphics ABI unchaged at 8
      . mirclientplatform ABI bumped to 5
      . mirinputplatform ABI unchanged at 5
    - Enhancements:
      . New display enumeration API
      . Added Android diagnostic tests to assist during porting to
        new devices
      . Added mir_demo_client_camera: a Video4Linux2 client
    - Bugs fixed:
      . Sometimes devices don't suspend - display turns back on
        immediately (LP: #1549701)
      . Mir crashed with exception 'failed to add sync point to command
        buffer' (LP: #1554635)
      . Mouse cursor is unusably slow in Unity 8 with a 1000Hz mouse
        (LP: #1539009)
      . Packaged mir_unit_tests binary is not suitable for general use
        (LP: #1547015)
      . [regression] Mir stops receiving input after a pause/resume
        cycle (LP: #1548989)
      . NBS (--nbuffers=0) causes software clients to crash with
        std::exception::what: Failed to mmap buffer 13, "Permission denied")
        (LP: #1550432)
      . Fullscreen clients freeze when using NBS with multiple monitors
        (LP: #1551536)
      . [ FAILED ] DisplayConfigurationTest.output_position_is_independent_of_
        orientation (LP: #1552065)
      . The server-side use of MIR_SOCKET is confusing (LP: #1290345)
      . [regression] FTBFS with -DMIR_LINK_TIME_OPTIMIZATION=on
        -Duse_debflags=on (LP: #1350343)
      . Mir On X (mesa-x11) keeps receiving mouse movement events even
        when not focused (LP: #1528110)
      . x11 platform: mouse cursor moves strange (LP: #1546324)
      . Cross compiling to wily/vivid doesn't work (LP: #1549152)
      . Rendering stutters when a new client establishes a connection
        (LP: #1549359)
      . 'mir_demo_server --test-client' crashes (SIGSEGV) when client
        dies (LP: #1555620)
      . [testfail] CI failure: TestClientInput.client_input_config_request_
        receives_all_attached_devices (LP: #1555708)
      . [regression] Mir FTBFS when MIR_ENABLE_TESTS=no (LP: #1556080)
      . Mir-on-X11 doesn't exit (until it gets an event) (LP: #1556210)
      . InputPlatformProbe.x11_platform_found_and_used_when_display_connection_
        works breaks with old input drivers present (LP: #1543049)
      . [regression] MIR_CLIENT_PERF_REPORT is missing window/surface
        names (LP: #1546933)
      . Installed binaries fail to run with mir_demo_server --test-client XXXX
        (LP: #1556160)
      . mir_demo_server --test-client [mir_demo_client_scroll|
        mir_demo_client_flicker] fails (LP: #1556205)
      . The contents of debian/mir-demos.examples are out of date and useless
        (LP: #1557446)

  [ CI Train Bot ]
  * No-change rebuild.

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