Fwd: [PATCH 3/3] evdev: Don't post REL_MISC events as axis motion. (#24737)

[Peter Hutterer]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:50:16PM +0200, Bartosz Brachaczek wrote:
> The problem is that the X server still posts MotionNotify events
> because of these REL_MISC events, which according to libX11 specs
> (section 10.5.2) is incorrect because MotionNotify indicates that the
> pointer moved, which isn't the case here. So either evdev should not
> post REL_MISC as a motion event or X server should check if the
> pointer actually moved before posting MotionNotify event.

this is a server bug, but afaict not much of an issue at this point, I don't
know of an application that screws up because it gets two MotionNotifies
with the same x/y coordinates. If there is one that would up the priority a
bit but this bug has been around since at least 1.7.

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23985

Cheers,
  Peter