Bug 374867 - Impossible to reach screen edge if mouse cursor is moving fast
Summary: Impossible to reach screen edge if mouse cursor is moving fast
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: input (show other bugs)
Version: 5.8.5
Platform: Gentoo Packages Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
URL:
Keywords:
: 376317 390258 392563 395886 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2017-01-10 13:40 UTC by Igor Poboiko
Modified: 2018-07-15 20:07 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Latest Commit:
Version Fixed In: 5.13.4
mgraesslin: Wayland+


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Description Igor Poboiko 2017-01-10 13:40:50 UTC
I have "Present Windows" effect bound to the upper-left corner of the screen.
If I move mouse cursor there too fast, the pointer stucks several pixels away from the corner and doesn't trigger the effect. It only triggers if I move it really slowly.

This bug shows itself also as a visual glitches if moving the cursor to any screen edge: pointer moves rather smoothly, but as it approaches the edge, it starts jumping noticeably.

It only occurs in the Wayland session.
Comment 1 Martin Flöser 2017-01-10 15:51:22 UTC
Do you have windows in the corner? If yes could you try to move them away and test whether that changes it? We have a special handling for Xwayland 1.18, which might make the cursor jump at 0/0
Comment 2 Igor Poboiko 2017-01-10 18:29:45 UTC
(In reply to Martin Gräßlin from comment #1)
> Do you have windows in the corner? If yes could you try to move them away
> and test whether that changes it? We have a special handling for Xwayland
> 1.18, which might make the cursor jump at 0/0

I have a Plasma panel on that edge of the screen (which is set to "Always visible", so no windows can overlap it). Moving it around didn't help.
BTW, I use xorg-server 1.19.0, KDE Frameworks 5.29.0, and Wayland 1.12.0.
Comment 3 Igor Poboiko 2017-02-10 19:08:23 UTC
Still an issue in Plasma 5.9.1. It makes "Active Screen Edge Actions" feature (almost) useless in Wayland :(

It behaves in a following manner: when I'm moving cursor, each time it jumps by some vector (dx, dy), which depends on the speed of cursor movement. It seems like there is a following check: if (x+dx, y+dy) is outside the visible area, just ignore that move, and thus make the cursor stuck at some position away from the border.
If I move slowly, then (dx, dy) is small, which allows me to come closer to the border and eventually touch it (thus triggering the edge action). But if I keep moving fast, the cursor is stuck. 
The proper behavior would be to move cursor exactly at the border instead.
Comment 4 Martin Flöser 2017-03-19 12:35:12 UTC
*** Bug 376317 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Martin Flöser 2017-03-26 14:02:48 UTC
https://phabricator.kde.org/D5182 should hopefully improve the situation.
Comment 6 Igor Poboiko 2017-03-26 20:05:23 UTC
I rebuilt KWin with that patch. Unfortunately, it didn't help that much: it's still reproducible.
Comment 7 Martin Flöser 2017-03-27 05:08:36 UTC
Git commit 0bb587dcb9de0a3bc688019fd66b224e713b3501 by Martin Gräßlin.
Committed on 27/03/2017 at 05:08.
Pushed by graesslin into branch 'master'.

Ensure PointerInputRedirection::processMotion finishes prior to warping

Summary:
Consider the following situation: we have three InputEventFilter linked
in the sequence A - B - C.

The input filters are processing pointer motion events. The expected
behavior is that the new motion is processed in the sequence
   A -> B -> C

So far this did not work correctly if the pointer gets warped during the
processing. If e.g. filter B warps the pointer we get a motion sequence:
   A (1) -> B (1) -> A (2) -> B (2) -> C (2) -> C (1)

The filters following the one warping the pointer get first the newer
than the older position. This is obviously wrong. Unfortunately it is not
just a theoretical condition, but a condition happening when interacting
with the screenedges, which warp the pointer.

This change introduces a PositionUpdateBlocker in
PointerInputRedirection::processMotion to ensure that a processMotion
call finishes prior to the next update. If the PositionUpdateBlocker is
blocked the new position gets scheduled and processed once the
PositionUpdateBlocker gets destroyed.

With this we get the expected sequence for B warping pointer:
   A (1) -> B (1) -> C (1) -> A (2) -> B (2) -> C (2)

This should hopefully improve the interaction with screen edges on
Wayland.

Test Plan:
Added an auto test demonstrating the issue of incorrect
ordering caused by screenedges. Prior to the change the test is failing.

Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma

Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin

Tags: #kwin

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D5182

M  +46   -0    autotests/integration/pointer_input.cpp
M  +49   -0    pointer_input.cpp

https://commits.kde.org/kwin/0bb587dcb9de0a3bc688019fd66b224e713b3501
Comment 8 Kilian Lackhove 2017-12-08 09:09:49 UTC
The problem still persists in kwin 5.11.4, qt 5.9.3, kwayland 5.40.0 and intel graphics on my archlinux notebook.

I also noticed that activating the corner with a mouse works most of the time while using the touchpad doesnt.
Comment 9 AE 2018-01-16 02:05:52 UTC
I'm seeing this bug too, with the latest-and-greatest installed.

Software setup:
kde-frameworks 5.42
kde-plasma 5.11.95
libinput 1.9.4 (but also with 1.8.3)
Comment 10 Martin Flöser 2018-02-11 15:43:55 UTC
*** Bug 390258 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Martin Flöser 2018-03-31 15:43:43 UTC
*** Bug 392563 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 AE 2018-05-19 09:57:49 UTC
Problem persists for Gentoo Linux on Thinkpad T450s with
Qt 5.11rc2
libinput 1.10.6
KDE frameworks 5.46
Plasma 5.12.90
Comment 13 elos42 2018-05-22 11:51:18 UTC
I can confirm that this bug also affects a fully-up-to-date installation on Fedora 28 (just launched).

It affects only the Wayland session, and not the Xorg session.

Moreover, it affects all effects such as Present Windows, Application Launcher etc.

Makes 'Screen Edges' features useless.
Comment 14 Martin Flöser 2018-06-27 18:41:36 UTC
*** Bug 395886 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 Vlad Zahorodnii 2018-07-15 20:07:18 UTC
Git commit 1e4703a719599d1587f5e43c0650bcac471450e7 by Vlad Zagorodniy.
Committed on 15/07/2018 at 20:05.
Pushed by vladz into branch 'Plasma/5.13'.

[wayland] Confine pointer to screen geometry

Summary:
If the new pointer position is "off screen", PointerInputRedirection
just ignores that new position. So, pointer remains on its previous
position. In some particular cases, like reaching default panel, it
degrades desktop experience because one have to slowly move pointer in
order to reach what he/she wants.

This change addresses that problem by confining the new pointer position
to screen geometry.
FIXED-IN: 5.13.4

Test Plan: Ran tests

Reviewers: #kwin, graesslin

Reviewed By: #kwin, graesslin

Subscribers: kwin

Tags: #kwin

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D14036

M  +93   -0    autotests/integration/pointer_input.cpp
M  +12   -6    pointer_input.cpp

https://commits.kde.org/kwin/1e4703a719599d1587f5e43c0650bcac471450e7