Bug#1118626: kwin-x11: Missing Build Depends breaks XInput integration, leading to many other problems
Le 23 octobre 2025 09:03:29 GMT+02:00, Ahmad Ismail <ahmadismail2001@gmail.com> a écrit :
>On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:51:15 +0200 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien_COUDERC?= <libre@coucouf.fr> wrote:
>> Dear Ismail,
>>
>> Le 23 octobre 2025 07:57:02 GMT+02:00, "A. Ismail" <a.h.ismail.dev@gmail.com> a écrit :
>> >Package: kwin-x11
>> >Version: 4:6.3.6-1
>> >Severity: normal
>> >X-Debbugs-Cc: a.h.ismail.dev@gmail.com
>> >
>> >Dear Maintainers,
>> >
>> >After upgrade to Plasma 6, I noticed that the Mouse Mark desktop effect is not
>> >smooth like it used to be and some other effects felt choppy. After
>> >investigation I found out that XInput integration was broken because CMake
>> >can't find libXi related headers. I installed libxi-dev and rebuilt kwin from
>> >Debian sources which fixed Xinput integration and now the problems are gone.
>> >
>> >Can you please fix Debian kwin source package (in trixie and sid) to iron out
>> >this issue? They need libxi-dev as build dependency.
>>
>> Thanks for your bug report, I will have a look.
>>
>> Could you please clarify which exact package and version you've modified to get it working ?
>>
>> The bug report was opened against kwin-x11 version 6.3.6 but that version doesn't exist in Debian since kwin-x11 was first introduced with version 6.4.91 (=6.5 beta 2).
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Aurélien
>>
>>
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>I did the changes on trixie, so in the kwin_6.3.6-1 source package, which produced the kwin-x11_6.3.6-1_amd64.deb binary package after running apt-src build kwin-x11. I was not aware that the X11 part was recently getting its own source package (if that is what you mean).
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>The kwin-x11 package does exist in trixie as a binary package, but its source package is kwin which builds kwin-wayland binary package too.
You're right, I didn't realise you were using trixie. Thanks.
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