SDL is built around the concept of keyboards having a fixed layout with scancodes that correspond to physical keys no matter what linguistic layout is used. Virtual keyboards don't have this concept and can present an arbitrary layout of keys with arbitrary scancodes and names, which don't fit the SDL model. When one of these keyboards is encountered, it requires special handling: use the keysym of the pressed keys to derive their ANSI keyboard scancode equivalents for control keys and ASCII characters. All other characters are passed through as text events only.
This is a functional state for some window managers (tested using stock Ubuntu 22.04.1), and removing that state, e.g. using SDL_RestoreWindow(), results in a window centered and floating, and not visually covering the rest of the desktop.
In all cases they were using SDL_SCANCODE_TABLE_XFREE86_2 with some keycodes remapped or fewer than expected keycodes. This adds a sanity check that catches all of them and gives them the right scancode table.
If we can't find the X11 keysym, it's likely that either the keysym is NoSymbol, in which case we won't hit it anyway, or it's been mapped to a character, in which case the existing mapping is correct for the scancode and the character will be reflected in the keycode mapping.
* Consolidated scancode mapping tables into a single location for all backends
* Verified that the xfree86_scancode_table2 is largely identical to the Linux scancode table
* Updated the Linux scancode table with the latest kernel keycodes (still unmapped)
* Route X11 keysym -> scancode mapping through the linux scancode table (which a few hand-written exceptions), which will allow mappings to automatically get picked up as they are added in the Linux scancode table
* Disabled verbose reporting of missing keysym mappings, we have enough data for now
X11 has a so-called primary selection, which you can use by marking text and middle-clicking elsewhere to copy the marked text.
There are 3 new API functions in `SDL_clipboard.h`, which work exactly like their clipboard equivalents.
## Test Instructions
* Run the tests (just a copy of the clipboard tests): `$ ./test/testautomation --filter Clipboard`
* Build and run this small application:
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```C
#include <SDL.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
void print_error(const char *where)
{
const char *errstr = SDL_GetError();
if (errstr == NULL || errstr[0] == '\0')
return;
fprintf(stderr, "SDL Error after '%s': %s\n", where, errstr);
SDL_ClearError();
}
int main()
{
char text_buf[256];
srand(time(NULL));
SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
print_error("SDL_INIT()");
SDL_Window *window = SDL_CreateWindow("Primary Selection Test", SDL_WINDOWPOS_UNDEFINED,
SDL_WINDOWPOS_UNDEFINED, 400, 400, SDL_WINDOW_SHOWN);
print_error("SDL_CreateWindow()");
SDL_Renderer *renderer = SDL_CreateRenderer(window, -1, SDL_RENDERER_ACCELERATED);
print_error("SDL_CreateRenderer()");
bool quit = false;
unsigned int do_render = 0;
while (!quit) {
SDL_Event event;
while (SDL_PollEvent(&event)) {
print_error("SDL_PollEvent()");
switch (event.type) {
case SDL_QUIT: {
quit = true;
break;
} case SDL_KEYDOWN: {
switch (event.key.keysym.sym) {
case SDLK_ESCAPE:
case SDLK_q:
quit = true;
break;
case SDLK_c:
snprintf(text_buf, sizeof(text_buf), "foo%d", rand());
SDL_SetClipboardText(text_buf);
print_error("SDL_SetClipboardText()");
printf("clipboard: set_to=\"%s\"\n", text_buf);
break;
case SDLK_v: {
printf("clipboard: has=%d, ", SDL_HasClipboardText());
print_error("SDL_HasClipboardText()");
char *text = SDL_GetClipboardText();
print_error("SDL_GetClipboardText()");
printf("text=\"%s\"\n", text);
SDL_free(text);
break;
} case SDLK_d:
snprintf(text_buf, sizeof(text_buf), "bar%d", rand());
SDL_SetPrimarySelectionText(text_buf);
print_error("SDL_SetPrimarySelectionText()");
printf("primselec: set_to=\"%s\"\n", text_buf);
break;
case SDLK_f: {
printf("primselec: has=%d, ", SDL_HasPrimarySelectionText());
print_error("SDL_HasPrimarySelectionText()");
char *text = SDL_GetPrimarySelectionText();
print_error("SDL_GetPrimarySelectionText()");
printf("text=\"%s\"\n", text);
SDL_free(text);
break;
} default:
break;
}
break;
} default: {
break;
}}
}
// create less noise with WAYLAND_DEBUG=1
if (do_render == 0) {
SDL_RenderPresent(renderer);
print_error("SDL_RenderPresent()");
}
do_render += 1;
usleep(12000);
}
SDL_DestroyRenderer(renderer);
SDL_DestroyWindow(window);
SDL_Quit();
print_error("quit");
return 0;
}
```
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* Use c,v,d,f to get and set the clipboard and primary selection.
* Mark text and middle-click also in other applications.
* For wayland under x:
* `$ mutter --wayland --no-x11 --nested`
* `$ XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland ./<path_to_test_appl_binary>`
- Touch events may be translated to mouse movement events without the normal Xinput2 raw motion events
being sent. Not all touch events will necessarily move the mouse but this ensures we update the global
mouse state just in case.
- Fix up some formatting
CR: saml
The documentation doesn't state that the argument is ever modified,
and no implementation does so currently.
This is a non-breaking change to guarantee as much to callers.
Since #5602, SDL is intended to have the same ABI across the whole
major-version 2 cycle, so we should not check that the minor version
matches the one that was used to compile an application.
There are two checks that could make sense here.
The first check is that the major version matches the expected major
version. This is usually unnecessary and is not usually done (if we're
calling into the wrong library we'll likely crash anyway), but since we
have the information, we might as well continue to use it.
The second check is whether the version provided by the caller is
equal to or greater than a threshold version at which additional fields
were added to the struct. If it is, we should populate those fields;
if it is not, then we cannot. This is only useful on platforms where
additional fields have genuinely been added during the lifetime of
SDL 2, like Windows and DirectFB (but not X11).
This commit changes the first check to be consistent about only looking
at the minor version, while leaving the second check using SDL_VERSIONNUM
(which will be removed or widened in SDL 3, but it's fine for now).
Resolves: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/5711
Fixes: cd7c2f1 "Switch versioning scheme to be the same as GLib and Flatpak"
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Otherwise we ignore the Configure/etc events when they come in because
the window is already in an identical state as far as SDL is concerned.
Fixes#5593.
May also fix:
Issue #5572.
Issue #5595.
This reverts commit 3fcc2cb500.
Button4 and Button5 are for the scrollwheel, not the extended buttons.
I don't know of a way to query the state of the extended buttons using X11.
On Gnome (and hopefully others!), this produces something that actually
matches SDL_SYSTEM_CURSOR_SIZENWSE/SDL_SYSTEM_CURSOR_SIZENESW. On
other desktop enviroments, it probably fits the spirit better than
XC_fleur in any case.
Reference Issue #2123.
We can get _some_ of the info we need out of standard Xlib and report a
single display (which might actually be multiple physical displays mushed
into a single desktop). This is better than nothing, but you should really
just build with XRandR support and get a better X server. :)
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