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• Backport of [2] and [3] to libsdl1.2 which fixed the issue described in this bug report (properly_handle_focus_events.patch, text/plain, 2020-12-30 18:20:37 +0000, 832 bytes)

Reported in version: 1.2.15
Reported for operating system, platform: Linux, x86_64

Comments on the original bug report:

On 2020-12-30 18:20:37 +0000, wrote:

Created attachment 4618
Backport of [2] and [3] to libsdl1.2 which fixed the issue described in this bug report

Since some time I stated to observe an annoying bug with the forward movement suddenly stopping while I was still pressing the corresponding key for the forward movement. Releasing and pressing the key again continued the movement. I observed this in the game "Unreal Tournament 2004", but other software is probably also affected. The stop basically happens after a few minutues of pressing the key, through the time needed to reproduce the issue is not constant.
While investigating the issue I found it started with a commit [1] in the Xorg xserver. Digging deeper into the code I found two commits [2] [3] in libsdl2 which looked like they would also fix the issue in libsdl1.2. I backported these two commits to the libsdl1.2 in Debian and can confirm that the bug got fixed by this. I am attaching the patch for my backporting to this bug report.

As I've seen there is still development in the libsdl1.2 branch, I think this fix also should be included there.

[1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=c67f2eac56518163981af59f5accb7c79bc00f6a
[2] https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/a1c4c17410e8
[3] https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/764129077d18

On 2020-12-30 19:20:03 +0000, Ozkan Sezer wrote:

Ryan, Sam: This looks good to me. OK to apply to SDL-1.2 branch?

On 2020-12-30 19:40:05 +0000, Sam Lantinga wrote:

Yep

On 2020-12-30 20:00:58 +0000, Ozkan Sezer wrote:

OK, patch applied as https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/336bcaa9432c
Thanks. Closing as fixed.