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bug#69083: Emacs's keyboard hook state is not reset on session lock (Win
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#69083: Emacs's keyboard hook state is not reset on session lock (Windows) |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 08:36:29 +0200 |
> From: Raffael Stocker <r.stocker@mnet-mail.de>
> Cc: 69083@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 21:20:35 +0100
>
> > So we need to load that DLL at run time via LoadLibrary, ...
>
> I have added that.
Thanks. I suggest one optimization: instead of probing whether
LoadLibrary succeeds in two places, do it only once, where you call
WTSRegisterSessionNotification, and at that time also record the
function pointer for WTSUnRegisterSessionNotification; then use the
2nd function pointer, if non-NULL, to call the unregister API.
> > (I'm a bit surprised that Remote Desktop Services need to be used for
> > this purpose. Are you sure there's no other way for Emacs to know
> > that the system is going to be locked? Where did you read about the
> > need to reset the keyboard hook state in that case, and the way to do
> > it?)
>
> For me, the need to reset the hook state is implied by the existence of
> the ‘reset_w32_kbdhook_state’ function defined in ‘w32fns.c’ and its
> call site. This function has been there since 2016, but was never
> called, because the ‘WM_WTSSESSION_CHANGE’ message wasn't received.
> >From [0]:
>
> MS> This message is sent only to applications that have registered to
> MS> receive this message by calling WTSRegisterSessionNotification.
>
> This seems to be the only way to find out it's being locked; at least I
> couldn't find anything indicating otherwise on the Microsoft website and
> a quick web search didn't turn up anything either.
This URL:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8606300/how-to-detect-windows-is-locked
seems to indicate that WTSRegisterSessionNotification requires
elevation on Windows 10/11. Did you get the UAC prompt when calling
that API? Are you running with admin privileges when you test this
code? Triggering UAC prompts when starting Emacs would be a nuisance
to our users.
> >> To receive session notifications, one must provide a window handle,
> >> which is fine if Emacs does not run in console mode. I don't know
> >> whether it is possible to get these notifications in console Emacs; at
> >> least using the console handle didn't work for me.
> >
> > Please try the technique used by the function find_child_console which
> > is defined in w32proc.c.
>
> Unfortunately, this didn't work for me. I tried calling
> ‘EnumWindows(find_child_console, ...)’ with a ‘child_process’ instance
> containing the current process id as returned by ‘GetCurrentProcessId’,
> but I don't seem to get a useful window handle.
What do you mean? What is the result of using find_child_console?
does the condition in find_child_console, which looks at the
process_id of all windows, never match the process ID of the Emacs
session running with -nw? Or what else goes wrong?
> I must be doing something wrong here. OTOH, [1] says:
>
> MS> Note For Windows 8 and later, EnumWindows enumerates only top-level
> MS> windows of desktop apps.
>
> Does this mean that ‘EnumWindows’ it doesn't work for console windows or
> is this remark irrelevant here? I am not familiar with the Windows
> terminology.
I think it does work with console windows, since that's what Emacs
uses it for (the sub-processes Emacs runs are almost always console
processes).
> Come to think of it, don't I need the window handle of the console
> window that Emacs is running in, which would imply that a handle for
> Emacs' pid doesn't exist? I was starting Emacs in cmd.exe using ‘emacs
> -Q -nw’, so I would probably have to find the pid of the ‘cmd’ process
> first, right?
Maybe, I don't know. But first, I'd like to understand what goes
wrong when you are looking for a window for which
GetWindowThreadProcessId returns the PID of Emacs.
> > Do we really need to use WTSRegisterSessionNotificationEx? Can't we
> > use WTSRegisterSessionNotification instead? AFAIK, the latter is
> > available since Windows XP, whereas the former only since Vista.
>
> Yes, ‘WTSRegisterSessionNotification’ works, too. However, [3] says
> that the minimum supported client here is Windows Vista, as with the
> ‘-Ex’ version.
That's a lie. The MS docs frequently pretend that old versions of
Windows don't exist, and this is one such case.