Bug#807528: vlc: after some time, clicks on the root window no longer work

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2015-12-10 03:48:14, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2015-12-10 03:16:01 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > After some time, clicks on the root window no longer work. VLC is
> > the cause of this problem because as soon as I quit VLC, clicks on
> > the root window work again.
> 
> I now remember that everytime this problem occurred, a USB mouse was
> disconnected. So, this may be related.
> 
> Note: the machine is a laptop.
>   * After disconnecting the USB mouse, the buttons of the touchpad
>     have no effect over the root window.
>   * After disconnecting the USB mouse and reconnecting it[*], the
>     buttons of this USB mouse have no effect over the root window.
> In both cases, the problem disappeared just after quitting VLC.
> 
> [*] This actually occurred due to a problem with a USB cable.
> I had already mentioned the issue related to VLC here:
>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=805168#27

Are you that this is a bug in vlc and not Qt 5, your window manager or X.Org?
Are you able to reproduce the issue with a USB mouse with a non-broken cable?

In any case, this is missing logs from vlc and probably X.Org and dmesg.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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