Some fullscreen XWayland games break keyboard when switching focus

[nonetrix]

Regression?

Yes

System Info and Version

System/Version info

Hyprland, built from branch  at commit 4141e6755022edc19cd37cd7ad077a93b3bae5bd  ().
Date: 2024-08-02
Tag: , commits: 4141e6755022edc19cd37cd7ad077a93b3bae5bd

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System Information:
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Release: 6.9.12
Version: #1-NixOS SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Jul 27 09:36:19 UTC 2024


GPU information: 
09:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 21 [Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT] [1002:73bf] (rev c3) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])


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Description

When opening a game in full screen keyboard and mouse both work, but if you switch focus to another window with rofi -show window for example then switch back keyboard will be broken mouse only will work

How to reproduce

1. Open game e.g. Quake 2 remaster
2. Have key bind to run rofi -show window
3. Switch to another window e.g. Firefox
4. Switch back to game
5. Suddenly keyboard doesn't work

Crash reports, logs, images, videos

No response

[BluewyDiamond]

i also have the same or something similar to this

this is what i remember in my case my game loses keyboard focus in the following scenarios:

first scenario: when steam (xwayland window) is under my game (xwayland window) solutions:

• switching back to steam and then back to the game
• unfullscreen the game and fullscreen it again
• avoid having steam and the game in the same workspace (sometimes you rarely still lose keyboard focus on the game)

scenario 2: even when the game and steam are in different workspaces solutions:

• refocus steam and go back to the game

[nonetrix]

Same here and makes it worse that a lot of games I have to window then fullscreen or it's in a window with my bar is the way because of another bug https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/6568

[declspecl]

Does the video turn black when you regain focus onto the game window? If so, may be a duplicate of this issue #6966 which is fixed in the AUR package and will be fixed in stable in a few days, with 0.42 being merged in earlier today. More context onto the problem in this issue as well here #6375

[BluewyDiamond]

it is somewhat related to it while the main problems of the issue were fixed some edge cases like this one are left though it is not a very big deal since in my case i can recover by doing the steps i describe above

[soworksl2]

I am experiencing something similar with Pathologic 2.

I am using Wine 9.14 and Hyprland 0.41.2-3 from the Arch repo.

I am playing in fullscreen mode, and when I switch to another workspace and then come back, the game freezes. I have to close it with Ctrl-C in the terminal. However, when I reopen the game, I notice that it changes the configuration and automatically switches to window mode, but it works fine that way.

Another behavior I observe is that if the game is in window mode and I drag or resize the window, or simply change workspaces, the image does not freeze, but the keyboard stops working.

Also, in fullscreen mode, when I switch workspaces or drag the window, the Wine terminal outputs some messages instantly:

011c:fixme:wbemprox:wbem_services_CreateInstanceEnum unsupported flags 0x30
0140:fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
0140:fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub
018c:fixme:d3d_shader:shader_sm4_read_dcl_resource Unhandled data type 0x6.
018c:fixme:d3d_shader:shader_sm4_read_dcl_resource Unhandled data type 0x6.
018c:fixme:d3d_shader:shader_sm4_read_dcl_resource Unhandled data type 0x6.
0188:fixme:d3d_shader:shader_sm4_read_dcl_resource Unhandled data type 0x6.
0188:fixme:d3d_shader:shader_sm4_read_dcl_resource Unhandled data type 0x6.
0188:fixme:d3d_shader:shader_sm4_read_dcl_resource Unhandled data type 0x6.
011c:fixme:dxgi:d3d11_swapchain_GetDesc Ignoring ScanlineOrdering and Scaling.
011c:fixme:dxgi:d3d11_swapchain_ResizeBuffers Ignoring flags 0x2.
011c:fixme:dwmapi:DwmGetWindowAttribute attribute 1 not implemented.
011c:fixme:dxgi:d3d11_swapchain_GetDesc Ignoring ScanlineOrdering and Scaling.
011c:fixme:dxgi:d3d11_swapchain_ResizeBuffers Ignoring flags 0x2.
011c:fixme:dxgi:d3d11_swapchain_GetDesc Ignoring ScanlineOrdering and Scaling.
011c:fixme:dxgi:d3d11_swapchain_ResizeBuffers Ignoring flags 0x2.

I hope this information is useful.

I suspect there are two problems here that need to be handled differently:

1. Game freezes when changing workspaces: This issue is related to focus, as mentioned in #6375.

   Probes or clues:

   • It only happens when changing focus.
   • In Windows, some games also switch from fullscreen to window mode on Alt+Tab, and I suspect they get minimized as well.
   • When the game loses focus, Wine automatically logs some fixme messages (see above).

2. The keyboard stops working when the game window is manipulated in window mode.

   Probes or clues:

   • The game does not freeze, and the mouse works correctly.
   • The keyboard stops working when dragging, resizing the window, or changing workspaces.

More clues:

• The game can switch from window mode to fullscreen and vice versa without any errors. It only occurs when Hyprland manipulates the window's attributes externally.

I hope this information can help to fix this bug. I am not experienced with Wayland or window managers, but I have some skills in C++. I would like to help find the bug, but I don’t even know where to start looking. In the meantime, I'm going to play some Pathologic 2 without messing with the windows XD, Sayonara baby.

[BluewyDiamond]

@soworksl2 if by game freezing you mean the game going black or something like that when changing workspaces the fix has been merged and available in the latest release 0.42

[soworksl2]

@BluewyDiamond it's not a black screen; it's just that the image gets frozen with the last frame of the game rendered.

[BluewyDiamond]

either way it sounds pretty much the same issue as the black window one but we wont really know until u try out the latest release 0.42 or -git version.

[nonetrix]

@BluewyDiamond it's not a black screen; it's just that the image gets frozen with the last frame of the game rendered.

Could you try on older/newer kernel before 6.10 and compare?

[soworksl2]

either way it sounds pretty much the same issue as the black window one but we wont really know until u try out the latest release 0.42 or -git version.

@BluewyDiamond yes, I gonna make some time to install the 0.42 Hyprland version and test the game. probably at night.

Could you try on older/newer kernel before 6.10 and compare?

@nonetrix I don't think that would be very feasible for me. But anyway, why do you think this problem could be related to the Linux kernel?

[nonetrix]

I have had issues in games where they just go crazy and flicker with black screen like mad in 6.10 then in older versions they just stutter sounded somewhat similar idk

[soworksl2]

@nonetrix By any chance, were you using Nvidia with the open-source graphics drivers (nouveau) or Intel?

I've experienced those kinds of problems, but I don't think it's very related because this issue follows a very repeatable pattern (when the game loses focus). Either way, we shouldn't dismiss your opinion, but something I can do that's more convenient for me is to test the game on other window managers first, like Sway, and see if the issues occur there.

[nonetrix]

I am using AMD and it seems to be games using Kex engine specifically e.g. Doom 1 + Doom 2 or Quake 1 or 2 remastered

[soworksl2]

I have tried the game in sway, and apparently the keyboard does not work there either but changing the focus does not freeze the game.

[TAforever]

Same here and makes it worse that a lot of games I have to window then fullscreen or it's in a window with my bar is the way because of another bug #6568

https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/6568#issuecomment-2325066770

[vaxerski]

Hello there!

This issue has been closed, as we are moving from issues to discussions. More about this can be found here and in #9854.

Firstly, please make sure this issue is still relevant in latest Hyprland. If so, we ask you to open a discussion (please read the discussion guidelines first, in the pinned post)

Thank you for your understanding!