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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:18:36 +0200
From: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [BUG] GTK terminal is broken
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To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Am 29.07.2013 20:05, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> maybe most developers will already have noticed that the terminal output
>> in QEMU's GTK user interface is broken. As far as I know, it never worked,
>> but as there are working alternatives, I did not care much and forgot to
>> report the issues.
>>
>> See these snapshots which show the problems with QEMU's GTK terminals:
>>
>> http://qemu.weilnetz.de/test/bugs/qemu-gtk-demo1.png
>>
>> Here the first line of the QEMUmonitor is only partially visible.
>> Tested with Cygwin/X on W64 host, QEMU running on Debian Linux.
>> Other X servers (e.g. native X on Debian Linux) don't show this
>> problem.
> It's a GTK/Cygwin/X bug.
>
> We use a vbox without anything particularly fancy happening.  Looks like
> something is calculating layout incorrectly.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori

I miss a comment on the more important next two points.
They are _not_ related to Cygwin / X.

Do you investigate them?


>> http://qemu.weilnetz.de/test/bugs/qemu-gtk-demo2.png
>>
>> This shows crippled output of "help" in the QEMU monitor
>> (look for "default frequency" at the bottom of the page).
>> Tested with several X servers.
>>
>>
>> http://qemu.weilnetz.de/test/bugs/qemu-gtk-demo3.png
>>
>> This shows crippled output in the QEMU serial console.
>> The Linux kernel boot messages are hardly readable.
>> Tested with several X servers, x86 and mips kernels,
>> GTK 2 and GTK 3.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> StefanW.