This bug report was migrated from our old Bugzilla tracker.

Reported in version: 2.0.5
Reported for operating system, platform: Linux, All

Comments on the original bug report:

On 2017-08-13 23:05:16 +0000, Clayton Craft wrote:

linux_input module is disabled by default, despite the comments in source code that it is otherwise:

src/video/directfb/SDL_DirectFB_video.c:
devdata->use_linux_input = readBoolEnv(DFBENV_USE_LINUX_INPUT, 0); /* default: on */

src/video/directfb/SDL_DirectFB_video.h:
#define DFBENV_USE_LINUX_INPUT "SDL_DIRECTFB_LINUX_INPUT" /* Default: on */

When using the directfb driver, the linux_input module is suppressed unless the SDL app is started with "SDL_DIRECTFB_LINUX_INPUT=1" set in the environment. I recall seeing at one point that the directfb folks recommended using linux_input over the other input drivers, but I am having trouble locating this recommendation. In any case, I believe that this should really be defaulted to 'on' since it's vastly superior to the other dfb input drivers!

On 2017-08-14 03:51:21 +0000, Sam Lantinga wrote:

Fixed, thanks!
https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/6f981ff3dc5f