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Crashes on multiple games when using multitouch pad input gestures on Wayland

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Description

Compatibility Report

  • Affected games: One Finger Death Punch, Trackmania Nation Forever, Heavy Rain, Realm of the Mad god Exalt
  • Steam AppID of the game: 264200, 11020, 960910, 200210

System Information

  • GPU: Intel Iris Plus (iGPU of the i7-1065G7)
  • Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 22.0.0
  • Kernel version: 5.17.1-zen1-1-zen
  • Full system is a Lenovo C940 with 16 GiB RAM and 512 NVMe SSD under Arch Linux
  • Proton version: 7.0-1

I confirm:

  • [ x ] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
  • [ x ] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

Symptoms

When an affected game is launched, any use of three fingers gestures results in a crash in GNOME, such as changing the virtual desktop. Using the keyboards shortcuts for the same action does not result in a crash.

This bug was not present ~5 month ago and is probably linked to the support of mutitouch gesture in XWayland, added in december.

This may also be linked to #5703.

Reproduction

  1. Launch any of the games on GNOME 41.5/42 with Wayland.
  2. Input any multitasking shortcut with the touchpad (three fingers slide up/left/right).

Logs

steam-11020.log
steam-960910.log
steam-200210.log
steam-264200.log

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the attached steam-APPID.log files and compare the crashes across the affected games, then read the related issue #5703 and the Wayland/XWayland gesture context mentioned here. Reproduce on GNOME under Wayland using the listed three-finger gestures and verify that the affected games no longer crash while keyboard shortcuts remain unaffected.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp, linux
Domain
desktop, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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