Searched for a few weeks and could not find any solid solution. Found a KDE thread that said it was a issue with flatpak but I don’t even have flatpak installed. Others say it’s Wayland, Do non KDE users on wayland get this too?
I know it’s for security but it’s too damned annoying to be worth it! Should I setup a tiling WM and be done with it? It really is that bad.
All I want to do is play Skyrim without seeing this every 15 minutes!
This seems like the most complete reasoning for what is going on. Since waiting for kde to fix things takes years while the concentrate on pushing new features maybe it would be best to test Hyperland to see if it suffers from this issue. Since it is a security protocol in wayland and I saw a gnome user in this thread is also suffering from this issue it may be present in Hyperland as well.
Honestly I hope this doesn’t happen in Hyperland too as I’m really looking forward to trying it out, been missing i3 allot lately, and it might inspire me to get back to my coding projects I’ve been putting off for no good reason.
There seems to be allot of workarounds in this thread for me to go through and test.
Thanks for the info. I appreciate it!
Please actually do test hyprland and post it, if you can.
I am frankly baffled that such a common issue has been going on for years now and no one has seemingly 100% fixed it… yet every distro targeted at a steam deck or other handheld, which doesn’t have a kb+m unless you also have a dock and a kb+m, seems to have gone with wayland, and are just pretending this doesn’t functionally cripple your handheld in desktop mode.
Its somehow worse than stickykeys prompt in windows alt tabbing your game: this will lock up your entire control scheme, and seemingly can’t actually be permanently fixed or turned off.
My suspicion is that the initial pop up still happens in gnome, but in kde, when you click the grant access prompt… it doesn’t actually permanently give the permission; some amount of time or sets of sequences of events will reset the granted access and then lock you out and re-prompt you.
It about time to switch things up. I dont know when I’ll get around to it. First I have to do some research to see if it is compatible to install alongside my current setup. I will defiantly let you know when I do though.