From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CqYrO-0004xu-OM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:32:07 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CqYrJ-0004uH-32 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:32:01 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CqYrI-0004u7-Ot for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:32:00 -0500 Received: from [38.113.3.61] (helo=smtp-out.hotpop.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CqYfK-0005nb-MX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:19:38 -0500 Received: from phreaker.net (kubrick.hotpop.com [38.113.3.103]) by smtp-out.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 7DEE1CFE6C7 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:19:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jbrown.mylinuxbox.org (pcp03144805pcs.midval01.tn.comcast.net [68.59.228.236]) by smtp-3.hotpop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47D84134F03C for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:19:33 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:18:25 -0500 From: "Jim C. Brown" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] rfb patch and mouse movement Message-ID: <20050117151825.GA5861@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> References: <41EA36B5.4020302@wasp.net.au> <20050116143509.GA31097@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:49:23PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Jim C. Brown wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:41:09PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote: > > > G'day all, > > > > > > I'm having a few issues at the moment with mouse > > > calibration under Windows XP. > > > > Every OS with mouse support, with the sole exception of ReactOS, has calibration > > problems. (At least, those OSes I've managed to test.) Why the mouse is > > perfectly calibrated in ReactOS, I have no idea. > > I have: ReactOS does not do mouse acceleration, thus one tick from the > mouse always corresponds to one pixel movement on the screen, whereas X11 > on Linux normally accelerates the mouse, i.e. one thick means one pixel > movement, but 10 ticks mean 20 pixels. > Then, in theory, if we could tell the guest X11 server to not do acceleration, the problem would go away? If so, that would also work for a Windows guest, tho the method of execution would probably be difficult. > > Does pressing Ctrl-Alt (or Ctrl-Shift??) to ungrab the mouse, then realiging > > the host and guest pointers, and then regrabing the mouse work? This is what I > > do w/ my no-sdl patch. > > This doesn't work yet with rfb9, because Ctrl-Alt doesn't alter the state, > i.e. the mouse updates are still forwarded after pressing Ctrl-Alt, and > even after a switch to the console or serial. Is this due to a limitation of VNC (in which case we might say, Ctrl-A Ctrl-A does the switch), or is it merely due to a lack of support in the code (that someone else could add easily by adding a few lines of code)? > > I want to rework the auto-calibration, but time's sparse. Also, somebody > on the list mentioned that he was working on this himself, but he didn't > answer my emails. > > Ciao, > Dscho > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel > -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.