Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] gtk: add support for input grabbing (v2)

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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On 2012-09-05 21:18, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> There is a small deviation from SDL's behavior here.  Instead of Ctrl+Alt
> triggering grab, we now use Ctrl-Alt-g to trigger grab.
> 
> GTK will not accept Ctrl+Alt as an accelerator since it just consists of
> modifiers.  Having grab as a proper accelerator is important as it allows a user
> to override the accelerator for accessibility purposes.
> 
> We also are not automatically grabbing on left-click.  Besides the inability to
> tie mouse clicks to an accelerator, I think this behavior is hard to discover
> and since it only happens depending on the guest state, it can lead to confusing
> behavior.
> 
> This can be changed in the future if there's a strong resistence to dropping
> left-click-to-grab, but I think we're better off dropping it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
> ---
> v1 -> v2
>  - add a menu option for grab on hover (Jan)

Thanks. Are options like this persistent across VM starts?

Jan


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