wayv will not run since Dapper Final

Bug #77572 reported by Coz
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: wayv

  I have been using wayv since Breezy and all through dapper until Dapper was released as final.
More importantly, I also have several clients who need "wayv" because fo their handicap.
 However, wayv has not worked on Ubuntu since dapper was finalized and has continued not to work through edgy and apparently feisty at this point.
  There is little info I can offer as far as errors in the terminal since it shows none!
There is a catch to this however.
  The catch is that if you create a root account on ubuntu, and log into that account, wayv works flawlessy, but will NOT run in the user account even if started as root.
 There is most definitely something strange about the user account, specifically and only in ubuntu, for this not to work.
I have had others try wayv on their edgy and feistly installations with the same results but one, who has tweaked and changed the default install of edgy. It works on his system but he doesn't remember exactly what he did to edgy that would have an impact on the user account that would allow wayv to function normally!
  Wayv is part of the default install of Debian, according to the developer, and he also informs that it works fine on other distributions, ie RedHat, Suse, etc.
  At this point, it appears that the development team, at some point with the Dapper Final, have done something to the user account in Ubuntu that prevents this needed application to funtion properly!
   Again, in a root account, wayv runs flawlessly...but in user account it will not.
Also there is no problem with permissions or ownership of wayv. i have given full ownership to the user and still nothing. All permissions to user, and still nothing.

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arty (me-arty) wrote :

Confirm that wayv doesn't work in Dapper. When trying to assign it to shift or control instead of mouse buttons, I get this error message:
arty@arty-desktop:~$ wayv
wayV version 0.3
X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
  Major opcode of failed request: 28 (X_GrabButton)
  Serial number of failed request: 14
  Current serial number in output stream: 15

I see almost the same message when clicking tray icon of xGesture:
X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
  Major opcode of failed request: 28 (X_GrabButton)
  Serial number of failed request: 305
  Current serial number in output stream: 329

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