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No stdin after closing SDL program without window manager
phulshof


Joined: 27 Dec 2016
Posts: 1
Hello all,

I've recently switched from Kubuntu 16.04 to Mint 18 (KDE), and am running
into the following problem:
When I run an SDL program directly under X without a window manager, and close
that program, stdin is not returned to the parent process. As an example:

I start X with just an xterm, start MAME (emulator), exit MAME, and return to
the xterm. My keyboard is simply not working anymore. I can still use the
mouse to copy/paste into the xterm, but keyboard input is not captured.

I've tested this with several SDL programs, and non-SDL programs, but the
result is the same: after exiting the SDL program my keyboard doesn't work,
and after exiting a non-SDL program I have no issue. I also don't have an
issue when I use a window manager like KDE. I did not have this issue with
Kubuntu.

Any thoughts on what might cause this issue, and how I might solve it?

Kind regards,

Pieter Hulshoff

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