https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52047
Rémi Bernon rbernon@codeweavers.com changed:
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--- Comment #3 from Rémi Bernon rbernon@codeweavers.com --- Hi,
I don't think adding yourself to the input user group is a good idea. It will let you access directly to /dev/input/eventX devices which are normally only meant to be accessed directly by privileged users.
This is for instance the case for mouse and keyboard devices, and it may then cause some trouble, as Wine will get direct access to these devices where they should normally be handled through the X server.
I have seen some cases for instance, where a laptop touchpad could then be considered as a joystick device and take precedence over genuine joystick devices.
Normally udev has some rules and heuristics to decide which device is a joystick and which is not, and only expose joysticks to unprivileged the users. This is probably what needs to be done, although I don't know how exactly.
Regarding the /dev/js backend, it's been removed but we can consider adding it back to winebus.sys if it's helping some cases.