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this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2024
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Basically :)
At least it might distract him from the terrible pain in all the diodes down his left side.
You should submit a bug report to your distro. If the window in focus doesn't grab the pointer, that should be a bug.
I am tempted to wait as I should be getting Plasma 6 soonish (on Tumbleweed)
I'm in a similar boat. I've got a bunch of small Wayland niggles, but I'm waiting to investigate them until after I switch to Tumbleweed when it gets Plasma 6 (I'm currently on Kubuntu).
Really enjoying Tumbleweed so far. The extra testing cycle they do versus Arch has a measurable effect on stability and need to fiddle with things after a routine system upgrade.
Are you using Xorg or Wayland?
Wayland + KDE
I thought that stuff like this couldn't happen on Wayland by design but maybe that's only true for keyboard inputs. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to help you but I hope that this information was at least useful to someone who knows more than me.
It's an issue even on Windows, Some games just like to hog your mouse inputs even when you tab out of the program. Worse is a few games I've played that locked my mouse to the middle of the screen when I alt tabbed so I couldn't click on anything!
I would guess both the game and discord are xwayland and since it all happens on that side that happens.
Seems like a similar thing to the xeyes trick to check if an app is really running on native Wayland: if the eyes don't move, mouse events aren't going to an xwayland client.
The game is under Steam proton, so I would expect that to use Wayland; unless all that stuff is XWayland?
It's all xwayland. Wayland support in Wine/Proton is barely usable yet. Even Valve's gamescope, although a Wayland compositor/client, still only exposes xwayland by default.
Good to know, thanks for the clarification.
Yeah it happens sometimes to me with specific games
As a fix, you can run the game through gamescope which should sandbox the game.
Good suggestion; haven't dived into the world of Gamescope yet.
Try going into a menu first so the game isn't stealing the mouse and keyboard focus.
What menu are you referring to? An in game one?
Yep and in game menu.
I had the same issue when playing Minecraft until I realized that I had to go into a menu so the game would unlock the mouse &/or keyboard.