[e-users] E 0.23.5 -> 0.25.1-1 upgrade aftermath

[Ross Vandegrift]

Hi Marc,

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 11:50:58AM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 07:19:03PM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> Raster got back to me, and said that the problem I'm having is indeed a
> bug in Xorg that is triggered by E.

FWIW, `sudo chvt 3` works as expected here.  I'm using the modesetting driver
though, you seemed to think you were using the intel driver.

> I quote
> "ok - that vt thing is an xorg bug. e has a feature now to do sipe
> gestures. to do that it opens up /dev/input/* devices etc. - and this
> seems to totally screw xorg up for some side-effect reason. git master e
> has an option to turn this off now. vt switching is ENTIRELY handled by xorg. not
> e. the xorgh server does all of this internally and the wm (e) is not
> involved. it doesn't even know a switch is happening and it can't do
> anything about it. vt switches in linux are totally voluntary userspace
> things not enforced by the kernel."
> 
> When you get a chance, could you update the debian package to a
> newer git version to pick up this fix?
> (it's not critical for me, I can wait for a while)

raster - it looks like the new option is in 264b59c42, is that right?  Are you
planning a .2 soon?  Just saw a few other fixes that'd be useful.

Marc - I'd rather not, for reasons related to how the E packages are built
(currently, we assume there's a tarball.  So git snapshots are annoying.) I'd
rather upload a 0.25.2 package.  If that's not in the cards, I can probably
cherry-pick that fix.

Ross