Bug#976366: Upgrade to 247 broke keyboard input on Wayland session

[Marc Dequènes (duck)]

Quack,

On 2020-12-05 05:00, Michael Biebl wrote:

> hidepid is known to cause problems and no longer a supported 
> configuration:
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.de.html#hidepid-unsupported

Thanks for pointing this out, I did not know it was officially 
unsupported.

I was already using the workaround for logind for quite a while and it 
is working fine.

As for the polkit workaround it requires polkit from experimental. I 
tried (with systemd 246.6-5) but it seems the client also do things of 
its own and that is not sufficient.

I then disabled hidepid and polkit is now working with 246.6-5.

Switching back to 247.1-3 I'm hitting the same problem. If a polkit 
agent is absolutely necessary then I'm not sure how it's supposed to 
work since it is launched (in the recommended sway config) after a 
graphical session is created by sway and it's already too late (the 
error messages came from sway initializing inputs). I cannot run the 
polkit agent before because it complains there is no display and quit.

I have no idea how desktop environments handle this. I could not find 
anyone using sway doing differently but 247 is fairly recent.

Would you have any idea? Anything to experiment?

Regards.
\_o<

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Marc Dequènes