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Bug 3611

Summary: Keyboard input "spills" out to the background console, even when grabbed
Product: SDL Reporter: midwan
Component: eventsAssignee: Manuel Alfayate Corchete <redwindwanderer>
Status: ASSIGNED --- QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: cameron.gutman, ioq3
Version: 2.0.5Keywords: target-2.0.16
Hardware: ARM   
OS: Linux   

Description midwan 2017-03-20 13:01:37 UTC 
Hi people,

I'm running SDL2 on a Pi 3 for an Amiga emulator I'm currently maintaining. I had to compile SDL2 from source to include support for running full screen applications from the console, otherwise we need to be under X11 (and that's a bit of an overhead for this project).

I've been trying to find out why all keyboard input for my SDL2 application, spills out to the background console. Here's what I mean:

- Boot in the Linux console.
- Launch an SDL2 application (in my case, it's an Amiga emulator for the Raspberry Pi, but I saw the same behavior on a few other SDL2 applications also)
- Press keys on the keyboard (some are handled by the application, some may not be)
- When you exit the application, all the keys pressed are shown in the console, like you were pressing those keys there.

I'm not sure if this is a known issue or if there's a known workaround, as so far I haven't been able to fix it or find a way around it.

I've tried using SDL_SetHint(SDL_HINT_GRAB_KEYBOARD, "1") right after I initialize SDL_Init().
I've also tried initializing the SDL Window with the SDL_WINDOW_INPUT_GRABBED flag set.

No difference unfortunately, I still get the same behavior.

Using SDL1.2 on the same application, does not show the same problem.

Does anyone have a clue on what to look for?
Comment 1 midwan 2017-05-20 12:56:44 UTC 
Any progress with this?

As a bug, it can manifest into a quite an ugly situation: Imagine someone typing something nasty withing the SDL2 application (like "sudo rm -F /boot"), it will get spilled to the console and executed if they hit Enter.
Comment 2 Sam Lantinga 2017-08-11 19:00:54 UTC 
Can you try the latest snapshot?
http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL-2.0.zip

This should have been fixed in this commit:
https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/fe9c7d01a093
Comment 3 midwan 2017-08-11 20:19:25 UTC 
Of course, I need a few days before I can run a test and I'll report back.
Thanks!
Comment 4 q3dev 2018-03-01 22:15:30 UTC 
I'm having the same issue with keypresses leaking back to the x11 desktop when SDL2 is compiled with --disable-video-x11. 

Tested on Raspberry Pi 3 with SDL2-2.0.8 and latest Raspbian Stretch.  Thank you!

SDL2 Configure Options:
./configure --host=arm-raspberry-linux-gnueabihf \
            --enable-alsa \
            --disable-alsa-shared \
            --disable-pulseaudio \
            --disable-esd \
            --disable-dummyaudio \
            --disable-diskaudio \
            --enable-video-kmsdrm \
            --enable-video-rpi \
            --disable-video-x11 \
            --disable-video-dummy \
            --disable-video-mir \
            --disable-video-wayland \
            --disable-video-vivante \
            --disable-video-vulkan \
            --disable-video-opengl


SDL2 Configure Summary:
Building Shared Libraries
Building Static Libraries
Enabled modules : atomic audio video render events joystick haptic power filesystem threads timers file loadso cpuinfo assembly
Assembly Math   :
Audio drivers   : oss alsa
Video drivers   : rpi kmsdrm(dynamic) opengl_es1 opengl_es2
Input drivers   : linuxev linuxkd
Using libsamplerate : YES
Using libudev       : YES
Using dbus          : YES
Using ime           : YES
Using ibus          : YES
Using fcitx         : NO
Comment 5 midwan 2019-01-26 20:14:45 UTC 
It's been a while, but I'm afraid I need to come back to this one.

When running an SDL2 app from the console, it seems to work normally now (using the latest SDL2 from Mercurial).

However, if I run the same app as a service, then this bug manifests itself again - I get keyboard input "split" in the console behind.
Comment 6 midwan 2020-12-20 11:06:00 UTC 
This still is an issue, at least for some users, even with the latest 2.0.12.
We've had a related bug report about it today: https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/issues/748

It seems to be triggered only when running from the console (with no X11 loaded!), using KMSDRM for example.

Do we have any progress update on it?
Comment 7 Sam Lantinga 2020-12-20 20:16:46 UTC 
I don't have a test setup for this. Manuel, can you look at this when you have time after 2.0.14 release?

Thanks!
Comment 8 Manuel Alfayate Corchete 2021-01-30 15:09:58 UTC 
This issue has no direct relationship with the KMSDRM backend, I believe, but affects the backend indirectly.

I am not seeing it happen unless I launch an SDL2 program via SSH. Running the program on a local TTY, there is no key leakage to the console.


The code that mutes the keyboard is exactly this one:

https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/c9d9e7ec5bf6/src/core/linux/SDL_evdev_kbd.c#l393

...But that "trick" only works for local TTYs.
I don't know much more about TTY keyboard, what's done there should be enough to prevent leakage.
I don't know in what other situations this could be happening, other than trying to launch the program over SSH.
Comment 9 Cameron Gutman 2021-01-30 16:26:10 UTC 
What we probably want is EVIOCGRAB on the keyboard fd. We can make that the default behavior or plumb it through the new SetWindowKeyboardGrab() stuff I added recently.