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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: GNOME/Freedesktop Incompetent Assholes
Date: 8 Oct 2024 02:51:34 GMT
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On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 22:09:59 -0400, Phillip Frabott
<nntp@fulltermprivacy.com> wrote in <ve249m$21pdi$1@dont-email.me>:

> On 10/7/2024 17:56, Farley Flud wrote:
>> Note: This post is for GNU/Linux experts only.  If you are just another
>> distro lackey then, please, fuck off.
>> 
>> Today, I invoked the Pan newsreader.  It would not fucking scroll with
>> the mouse wheel.  What the friggin' fuck?
>> 
>> Also, some other GUI programs would not scroll.
>> 
>> I've had this problem before, and, sure enough, it was libinput,
>> a product of GNOME/Freedesktop that was the fault.
>> 
>> Once again, those incompetent assholes changed their device numbers:
>> 
>> xinput list-props 8 ...
>>          libinput Send Events Modes Available (270):     1, 0 libinput
>>          Send Events Mode Enabled (271):        0, 0 libinput Send
>>          Events Mode Enabled Default (272):        0, 0
>> ...
>> 
>> They changed the "Send Events Mode Enabled" from 269 to 271.
>> 
>> What the fuck for?  Only those incompetent assholes will know.
>> 
>> In my X/FVWM3 boot I have to change it to:
>> 
>> xinput --set-prop 8 271 1 0

Yer an idiot.

"Gee, how can we guard against the enums changing?"

$ cat game_kbd.sh
#!/bin/bash

xinput set-prop 'ASUF1204:00 2808:0104 Touchpad' \
	'libinput Disable While Typing Enabled' 0
exit $?

 _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Like that, dipwit.

(Sorry to piggy-back on your post, Phillip -- Lester
Del Dumb lives in my kf.  I will pull him out for a while,
but I'm sure that won't last.)

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