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Save state hotkeys not functioning on vba-m-gtk-svn1030

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 7:21 pm
by DullOnion

I'm using the Arch Linux AUR package from http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16851

 

Up until a day ago they worked fine, but after a system update Shift + F1-F10 doesn't register with vba-m. Pressing F1-F10 to load a save state works fine, as does saving the state manually from the menu.

 

The packages I updated just prior to this issue were mpfr, xf86-input-evdev, xf86-input-keyboard, xf86-input-mouse, xf86-input-synaptics, xf86-video-intel, farsight2, fceux, glade, and virtualbox. Removing or reinstalling any of these packages does not resolve the issue. Reinstalling vba-m does not resolve the issue either. Saving states does not work in vanilla VBA. Shift+F1 works in every other program.


Save state hotkeys not functioning on vba-m-gtk-svn1030

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 8:33 pm
by Squall Leonhart

This is not our problem, take it up with the distro.


Save state hotkeys not functioning on vba-m-gtk-svn1030

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:20 am
by cmays90

I am using a completely different distro (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS), and I have the same issue.


Save state hotkeys not functioning on vba-m-gtk-svn1030

Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 7:45 pm
by hasufell

This is not our problem, take it up with the distro.

same on gentoo

 

whos problem is it then if not yours?


Save state hotkeys not functioning on vba-m-gtk-svn1030

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 3:35 am
by Squall Leonhart

the idiot who broke the linux libraries.

 

vba-m isn't the only one affected.


Save state hotkeys not functioning on vba-m-gtk-svn1030

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 7:09 am
by hasufell

link to upstream bug of that library?


Save state hotkeys not functioning on vba-m-gtk-svn1030

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 8:53 am
by Squall Leonhart

Save state hotkeys not functioning on vba-m-gtk-svn1030

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 10:40 am
by hasufell

Right, but we can't include a (random) fork of evdev in main repositories. That is pretty much against most policies and not sane to expose the user to testing that.

 

Telling users to report this downstream is the wrong way to go, because this issue is distribution agnostic.

 

Why not just use a different method for saving states?

Otherwise plz care to report this bug to freedesktop.org cause it's affecting your code/software.


Save state hotkeys not functioning on vba-m-gtk-svn1030

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 12:43 pm
by Squall Leonhart

You could just NOT go out on a tandem and break previously working functionality that more than quite a few applications have used for ever with no issues previously.

 

VBA doesn't get updated anymore so theres not gunna be a fix there, nor is epsxe expected to get a linux update any time soon.


Save state hotkeys not functioning on vba-m-gtk-svn1030

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 12:45 pm
by Squall Leonhart

I think the problem is that vba-m don't consider shift as a modifier key. When I try to set the pad buttons, it registered Shift_L and Shift_R as acceptable keys.

 

GTK considers all the normal modifiers properly, however the input configuration goes through the input library, which shift can also be used validly as a button